Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen | |
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Hymn by Paul Gerhardt | |
English | Why should I then grieve |
Text | by Paul Gerhardt |
Language | German |
Published | 1653 |
"Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen" (Why should I then grieve) is a hymn with a text by Paul Gerhardt written in 1653. It was first published that same year in the fifth edition of Johann Crüger's hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica. In the current Protestant hymnal, Evangelisches Gesangbuch, it appears as number 370.
Below is the text of the first stanza, in the original German:
Warum sollt' ich mich denn grämen?
Hab' ich doch Christum noch,
wer will mir den nehmen?
Wer will mir den Himmel rauben,
den mir schon Gottes Sohn
beigelegt im Glauben.