424. Savior, teach me, day by day
Jane Eliza Leeson, 1807-82
“Love’s sweet lesson” has never been presented more beautifully to the young than in this lyric from Miss Leeson’s Hymns and Scenes of Childhood, 1842, where it is entitled “Obedience.” The Scriptural basis is I John 4:19: “We love him because he first loved us.”
For comments on the author, Jane Eliza Leeson, see [Hymn 298].
MUSIC. POSEN is a short, vigorous tune which children, as well as adults, love to sing. The bass is no less interesting than the melody.
The composer, George C. Strattner, 1650-1705, was an able German musician whose most important work consisted in editing the fifth edition of Joachim Neander’s Collected Hymns, with music, published 1691, in which POSEN first appeared.