All scenes alike engaging prove

All scenes alike engaging prove. Jeanne Marie Guyon* (1648-1717).  This is a variant on the hymn by Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Mothe Guyon, translated by William Cowper*, ‘O thou by long experience tried’*. That hymn was first published in Poems, Translated from the French of Madame de la Mother Guion, by the late William Cowper, Esq.  Author of the Task (1801), edited by William Bull, the rector of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. It was entitled ‘The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Every Where’. The variant from the original hymn began with the second stanza, as above.  For the text of the original hymn, see the entry on ‘O thou by long experience tried’. There have been various...