有好一段時間沒做過舊詞譜新曲的練習，普天頌讚的《常住愛中歌》是我其中一首至愛金曲，尤其是在風雨飄搖的日子，詩歌歌詞更見寶貴，就為它以粵韻重譜一個旋律吧。

英詞：Anna Laetitia Waring
中譯：劉廷芳　楊蔭瀏合譯（adopted from 普天頌讚）
譜曲：海牛

常住天來妙愛中　我心不怕變遷
這般信靠真穩妥　變遷不到此間
縱使身外風怒吼　心中憂慮愁煩
有主周圍護佑我　何致沉悶孤單
In heavenly love abiding, no change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding, for nothing changes here:
The storm may roar without me, my heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me, and can I be dismayed?

憑主引我往何方　艱難也不回頭
大牧便在我身旁　此外我更何求
聖目永遠不模糊　聖智永遠清明
因主認識祂程途　我願與主同行
Wherever he may guide me, no want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me, and nothing can I lack:
His wisdom ever waketh, his sight is never dim,
He knows the way he taketh, and I will walk with him.

前方自有青草場　我今還未看見
原來黑雲當頭處　將成化日光天
我心希望無限量　得行生命路程
我將珍寶全獻主　主願與我同行
Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o’er me, where darkest clouds have been;
My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free;
My Saviour has my treasure, and he will walk with me.

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go 是一首非常美麗的聖詩，不論是旋律抑或是歌詞，都是動人非常，就是劉廷芳博士的中譯詞，也是絕美的，是我其中一首至愛的金曲。

之前既試過把數首詩歌的舊詞按粵韻重新譜曲，且也拿這歌來重譜看看，旋律當然難跟原裝的相比，效果不算非常滿意，但也是一次很好的練習和功課。

英詞：George Matheson
中譯：劉廷芳（adopted from 普天頌讚）
譜曲：海牛

仁愛　不忍棄我的愛
疲勞靈魂因祢得安
虛逝殘生我今歸獻
願如潦水流入淵洋
翻作壯闊波瀾
O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee.
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

真光　照我全程的光
將殘的燈移來就祢
我心復得所失之光
在祢陽光和煦之中
便覺明亮輝煌
O Light that follows all my way,
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee.
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.

歡樂　祢來苦中找我
我心豈忍將祢拒絕
我在雨中蹤跡彩虹
知道應許不會落空
天明不再有淚
O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee.
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.

使我抬頭的十字架
不皈依祢我復何往
生世榮華終歸塵土
埋葬了讓紅花開遍
生命永無止息
O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee.
I lay in dust, life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red,
Life that shall endless be.

謹將劉廷芳博士寫的《覲聖歌》第二節歌詞譜一個新調，記念戰火中的烏克蘭…

詞：劉廷芳 （參普天頌讚《覲聖歌》第2節）
曲：海牛

吾眾今朝　虔誠來入覲
國難民愁　遍心創痕
仰瞻聖容　看血淚千行
人間苦痛　主仍擔當

受難節臨近，再試著以粵韻重譜這首叫我很受感動的節期詩歌：

詞：Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
中譯：劉廷芳、楊蔭瀏（參普天頌讚173《寶架清影歌》）
曲：海牛（按粵韻重新譜曲）

在主寶架清影中，歡然立定腳跟，
好像盛暑遠行辛苦，來進磐石之蔭，
好似曠野欣逢居處，長途喜見涼亭，
到此得釋肩頭重擔，養力奔赴前程。
Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty Rock
Within a weary land;
A home within the wilderness,
A rest upon the way,
From the burning of the noontide heat,
And the burden of the day.

神聖莊嚴之十架，我常抬頭瞻仰，
雙眼如見寶血傾流，為我捨身之像，
熱淚滿眶，寸心如裂，兩事仔細思量，
思量我身不配受恩，思量主愛非常。
Upon that cross of Jesus
Mine eye at times can see
The very dying form of One,
Who suffered there for me;
And from my smitten heart, with tears,
Two wonders I confess,
The wonders of His glorious love,
And my own worthlessness.

願在寶架清影中，事主，愛人，行道；
我不尋求旭日光華，因有慈光普照：
世界榮華，不足貪圖，得失無關重要，
但將罪惡看為羞恥，寶架看為榮耀。
I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain nor loss,
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory all the cross.

《千古保障歌》或《千古保障》是一首常在安息禮拜詠唱的聖詩，原詞是Isaac Watts按詩篇九十篇改編撰寫的。

上周末連續兩天在兩個不同的崇拜中都聽到這歌，曲子和歌詞縈繞在腦中數天，忽萌把歌詞按粵韻重譜成新的曲子的想法。

雖然只是兩天多的過程，然而這次譜曲是一次很好的練習和學習；而我也希望若有朝一日，我有幸有人為我搞安息禮拜，可用上這曲子為我送別。

詞：Isaac Watts
中譯：劉廷芳（參普天頌讚30《千古保障歌》）
曲：海牛（按粵韻重新譜曲）

上帝是人千古保障，是人將來希望，
是人居所，抵禦風雨，是人永久家鄉。
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.

在主寶座蔭庇之下，群聖一向安居；
惟賴神臂威權保護，永遠平安無慮。
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.

山川尚未發現之時，星球未結之先，
遠自太初便有神在，永在無窮盡年。
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.

在神眼中，億千萬年，恍若人間隔宿；
恍若初聞子夜鐘聲，轉瞬東方日出。
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.

時間正似大江流水，浪淘萬象眾生，
轉瞬飛逝，恍若夢境，朝來不留餘痕。
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

上帝是人千古保障，是人將來希望，
是人居所，抵禦風雨，是人永久家鄉。
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.