月前，姊妹邀我為昨天公理堂的差傳主日日堂詩班所獻唱的詩歌做譯詞，曲目是Mark Weston的《Lord, Here Am I》，英文歌詞改編自Fanny Crosby的詞。
昨早，特地列席了詩班的最後排練，閉目聽著，一幕幕感人的記憶於腦海浮現，教我感動不已，而透過指揮和詩班員練習時的對話，也令我這個音樂門外漢對翻譯合唱詩的功課有了進一步的領會，縱沒機會在正式獻唱時聽到，卻已教我受用良多。
《主，我在這裡》
Words by Fanny Crosby
Music by Mark Weston
粵譯：海牛樂聽主叫我來跟祂腳蹤；
導我奔前程，唯快跑趕上～～。
使～命並託～付，懇求教導我，
負擔、歸宿，請賜示我方向。
回應召命，甘心慨然承擔：
主，我在這裡，
請差遣我！
Master, you call me, I gladly obey;
Only direct me, I will not delay.
Teach me the mission appointed for me,
What is my labor, and where it shall be.
Master, you call me, and this I reply,
“Ready and willing,
Lord, here am I.”哦！救主，我決志擔祢十架；
效祢，不介意受折損指責～～；
甘～願祢領～著我朝窄路進；
我所需天天仰賴祢恩賜。
回應召命，甘心慨然承擔：
主，我在這裡，
請差遣我！
Willing, my Savior, to take up your cross;
Willing to suffer reproaches and loss.
Willing to follow, if you will but lead;
Only support me with grace in my need.
Master, you call me, and this I reply,
“Ready and willing,
Lord, here am I.”活與死，我有祢應許永偕；
但我只凡人而祢乃真神～～，
寛～恕我，假～使我偏離行差；
求祢憫念，使我復見光明。
回應召命，甘心慨然承擔：
我今於這裡，
我今於這裡，
我就在這裡，
主，差遣我！
聽主差遣！
Living, or dying, your presence be mine;
Yet I am mortal while you are divine.
Pardon, whenever I turn from the right;
Pity, and bring me again to the light.
Master, you call me, and this I reply,
“Ready and willing,
ready and willing,
ready and willing,
Lord, here am I,
Lord, here am I.”