Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri - IV - Ad latus - Hora Mortis

MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI: BuxWV. 75
Cantata 4 (Ad Latus) - Hora mortis
Text: Possibly Arnulf of Leuven (c1200 - 1250), formerly ascribed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
Music: Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)
Soprano: Patricia Maguire, 1996
Musical Director: Lance Phillip
Hora mortis meus flatus
Intret, Jesu, tuum latus,
Hinc expirans in te vadat,
Ne hunc leo trux invadat,
Sed apud te permaneat.
In the hour of death, may my soul
Enter, Jesus, Your side
Hence dying may it go into You,
Lest the cruel lion seize it,
But let it dwell with You.