Ich beglücktes Schäfelein?
Denn nach diesen schönen Tagen
Werd’ ich endlich heimgetragen
In des Hirten Arm und Schoss:
Amen, ja mein Glück ist gross!
No information concerning the translator, William F. Stevenson, has been traced.
MUSIC. WEIL ICH JESU SCHÄFLEIN BIN is a popular melody, from the Gesangbuch mit Noten where it appears anonymously. It also appears with the same words and translation in the United Lutheran Common Service Book, 1918, where the tune is credited to Dölker’s Geistliche Lieder, 1876.
431. Sleep, baby, sleep
Ferdinand F. Buermeyer
The author of this lullaby, Ferdinand F. Buermeyer, has not been traced. The words were written in 1876.