Thomas Tallis - The God of love my Shepherd is - текст песни (слова)

1. The God of love my Shepherd is,
 And he that doth me feed;
 While he is mine and I am his,
 What can I want or need?
 He leads me to the tender grass,
 Where I both feed and rest;
 Then to the streams that gently pass:
 In both I have the best.
 
 2. Or if I stray, he doth convert,
 And bring my mind in frame;
 And all this not for my desert,
 But for his holy name.
 Yea, in death's shady black abode
 Well may I walk, not fear;
 For thou art with me; and thy rod
 To guide, thy staff to bear.
 
 3. Nay, thou dost make me sit and dine,
 Ev'n in my enemies' sight:
 My head with oil, my cup with wine
 Runs over day and night.
 Surely thy sweet and wondrous love
 Shall measure all my days;
 And, as it never shall remove,
 So neither shall my praise.