God of my life, to thee I call
God of my life, to thee I call. William Cowper* (1731-1800).
This dramatic hymn was first printed in Book III of Olney Hymns (1779) in six stanzas, headed ‘Looking upwards in a storm’. Hymns (1852), produced by the SPCK, substituted ‘we’ for ‘I’ throughout to make the first line ‘God of our life, to Thee we call’. and printed only the first two stanzas and a third from an unknown source. The Anglican Hymn Book (1868) used ‘I’ and altered the first line to ‘My God, my life, to thee I call’. A&M (1861) followed Hymns (1852) in using the plural pronoun. In common with many other books it omitted the fifth stanza of the 1779 text, which was:
God of my life to thee I call,
Afflicted at thy...
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