This rather poetic take on Psalm 23 is by J Driscoll SJ and is set to BROTHER JAMES’ AIR by J L MacBeth Bain. The text has a bit of the Yoda about it but at least it is more than just a paraphrase.
OCP can sell you the sheet music. Godsongs has some background on the hymn.
The tune is really quite nice and can be used as an alternative to CRIMOND for the more usual text for Psalm 23.
The living God, my Shepherd is,
I know no care or need:
He guides me where rich pastures grow,
Along the verdant mead,
Where everyday, by pleasant way,
My hungering soul may feed.He leads me where cool waters flow,
By rippling stream and rill,
Where I may taste the springs of life,
My thirsting spirit fill;
He near me bides and homeward guides
My vagrant heart and will.I nothing fear; thou art, O Lord,
With me through night and day,
Intent, with shepherd’s staff and rod,
To guide me when I stray,
And in the fold thou dost uphold
My fainting heart always.And so through all the length of days,
Thy mercy waits on me,
At last within my Father’s house,
Thy glory I shall see;
Thee ever more will I adore
Through all eternity.
Right tune, other words.