Earth, with all thy thousand voices
Earth, with all thy thousand voices. Edward Churton* (1800-1874).
From Churton’s The Book of Psalms in English Verse (1854), sometimes (as in JJ) called ‘The Cleveland Psalter’. It is a paraphrase of Psalm 66, ‘Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands’. Churton’s long original was radically changed by Benjamin Hall Kennedy*, who used stanzas 1, 2, and 8-13 to make a two-stanza hymn in Hymnologia Christiana (1863), with 16 lines to each stanza. It was also in ‘Wesley’s Hymns’ (1876) in four 8-line stanzas. It became popular with Wesleyan Methodists, and remained in the 1904 Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book and in MHB:
Earth, with all thy thousand voices, Praise in songs the eternal...
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