Every morning mercies new

Every morning mercies new.  Greville Phillimore* (1821-1884). First published, with no author’s name, in The Parish Hymn Book (1863), edited by Phillimore, Hyde Wyndham Beadon*, and James Russell Woodford*. The first lines were ‘Every morning they are new/ Fresh as falls the early dew’, changed in The Hymnary (1872) to the present ones. It had four 6-line stanzas. It is almost unknown in Britain, although in addition to The Hymnary  it was in A Church of England Hymn Book (1880) edited by Godfrey Thring*. It was very popular in the USA, from its inclusion by Charles S. Robinson* in Laudes Domini (New York, 1884) onwards. It was in the Protestant Episcopal Church Hymnal of 1892, and in the...