Day by day, dear Lord

Day by day, dear Lord. possibly by Richard of Chichester* (ca. 1197-1253). This prayer was printed on a card of 1915 in the British Library collection, with the words ‘Partly — at least — by St Richard, Bishop of Chichester…’. It was used by Percy Dearmer* in SofPE, in Part VIII, ‘Verses and Other Doxologies’, as the first of ‘Graces and Other Verses’: Day by day,   Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:        To see thee more clearly,         Love thee more dearly,         Follow thee more nearly,             Day by day. However, there is no reference to this stanza in the ODNB entry on Richard of Chichester, and the attribution must remain conjectural. In...