Beyond, beyond that boundless sea

Beyond, beyond that boundless sea. Josiah Conder* (1789-1855). First published in Conder’s The Star in the East with Other Poems (1824), and later in The Congregational Hymn Book (1836) edited by him. In The Star in the East it was placed and dated ‘Happisburgh [Norfolk], June 1822’. Its title in that book was ‘A Thought on the Sea Shore’, with a quotation added: ‘“Though He be not far from every one of us”. Acts 17: 27.’ According to the Companion to CP (1953), it was described by W. Garrett Horder* as ‘a very distinctive and remarkable hymn on the omnipresence of God’. Verses 2 and 3 are: Beyond, beyond that boundless sea,  Above that dome of sky,Farther than thought itself can flee,  Thy...