Come, Lord, and tarry not

Come, Lord, and tarry not. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889).  This hymn is  from a long hymn in fourteen 4-line stanzas, first published in a collection, Kelso Tracts (1846) and then in Bonar’s Hymns of Faith and Hope, First Series (1857) (JJ,p. 249). It was headed ‘Come, Lord’, with a quotation, ‘Senuit mundus’ (‘the world is growing old’). Selections from the original hymn vary in length: in Christ in Song (New York, 1869) Philip Schaff* printed all fourteen stanzas; in the Presbyterian Hymnal (Philadelphia, 1895, 1911) Louis F. Benson* used stanza 1 only. The normal selection is one of four or five stanzas. The five-stanza text consisted of the first three stanzas and the last two from...