Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness by Johann Wolfgang Franck, 1618-1677 (Tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878) SCHMUCKE DICH—Johann Cruger Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness 1 Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness, Leave the gloomy haunts of sadness, Come into the daylight’s splendor, There with joy thy praises render Unto him whose grace unbounded hath this Wondrous banquet founded; High o’er all the heavens he reigneth, Yet to dwell with thee he deigneth 2 Sun, who all my life dost brighten;