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C. Winkworth, 1855, in her Lyra Germanica.
| Stanza 1. | Go forth my heart and seek delight In all the gifts of God's great might, These pleasant summer hours: Look how the plains for thee and me Have deck'd themselves most fair to see All bright and sweet with flowers. |
| 8. | Thy mighty working, mighty God, Wakes all my pow'rs; I look abroad, And can no longer rest; I, too, must sing when all things sing, And from my heart the praises ring, The Highest loveth best. |
| 9. | If Thou in Thy great love to us, Wilt scatter joy and beauty thus O'er this poor earth of ours; What nobler glories shall be given Hereafter in Thy shining heaven Set round with golden towers! |
| 10. | What thrilling joy, when on our sight Christ's garden beams in cloudless light And rings with God's high praise; 134Where all the thousand seraphim In one accordant voice and hymn Their Alleluia raise! |
| 11. | O, were I there! oh, that I now Before Thy throne, my God, could bow, And bear my heavenly palm! Then, like the angels would I raise My voice, and sing thine endless praise In many a sweet-toned psalm. |
J. W. Alexander, 1849, in the Schaff-Gilman Library of Religious Poetry.
| Stanza 1. | Go forth, my heart, and seek for praise, On these delightsome summer days, In what thy God bestows! How rich the garden's beauties be, How lavishly for me and thee It doth its charms disclose! |
R. Massie, 1863, in the Schaff-Gilman Library of Religious Poetry.
| Stanza 1. | Go forth, my heart, nor linger here In this sweet season of the year, When God his gifts dispenses; See how the gardens in their best For you and me are gayly drest, And ravish all the senses! |
J. Kelly, 1867, in his Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs.
| Stanza 1. | Go forth, my heart, and seek delight In this summer time so bright, The bounties God displayeth, The garden's splendour go and see Behold how God for me and thee Them gorgeously arrayeth. |
Miss Margarete Münsterberg, in her Harvest of German Verse, 1916.
| Stanza 1. | Go out, my heart, and seek delight, In this dear summer time so bright, In God's abundance daily; The beauty of these gardens see, And look, how they for me and thee Have decked themselves so gaily. |
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