#547: Sent Forth by God's Blessing

[lutheranhymns]

There are a bunch of feminine rhymes here, and pretty impressively, all of them are modified masculine ones: blessing/confessing, ended/extended, etc. The melody is a peppy, upbeat Welsh folk tune, which we'll see again towards the end, but the secular English-language lyrics about "The Ash Grove" seem pretty sad--I met my love in the ash grove, then she died, now it makes me lonely. :(