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Komm, Schpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein

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"'" (Come, Creator Spirit, visit us) is a Christian hymn in German for Pentecost. The text is a paraphrase of the Latin hymn by Heinrich Bone. The melody is an adaptation of the Latin hymn's plainchant. It was first published in 1845. In the Catholic hymnal 'Gotteslob', it is GL 351.

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is one of many paraphrases of the 9th-century which is attributed to Rabanus Maurus. The first version in German was Martin Luther's ", published in 1524. Bone's version, in six stanzas as the model, was first published in 1845. It was part of his 1847 hymnal 'Cantate!'. The hymn was included in the first edition of the common German Catholic hymnal 'Gotteslob' in 1975 as GL 245, and is stanza, GL 351 in its 2013 edition, in the section Pentecost / Holy Spirit.

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