"Confer on me a blessed end"

From "Bach’s Deathbed Hymn":

Blind and restricted to his deathbed, Johann Sebastian Bach asked a fellow organist to play one of his own hymns. Bach then did what any brilliant composer would have done. ....

...[H]e retitled the work and modified its strains in a manner which perfectly addressed his circumstances. Anticipating his imminent encounter with his Creator, he changed the name to Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit (Before Your Throne I Now Appear). The first and last verses of the hymn are as follows.

Before your throne I now appear, O God, and beg you humbly Turn not your gracious face From me, a poor sinner. Confer on me a blessed end, On the last day waken me Lord, That I may see you eternally: Amen, amen, hear me.

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