Good Joseph had a garden

Good Joseph had a garden. Alda Marguerite Milner-Barry* (1875-1940). This delightful Easter hymn was first published in the Church & School Hymnal (1926), which included six of Milner-Barry’s hymns. This one is unusual in its mention of Joseph of Arimathea, who is the ‘good Joseph’ of the opening: Good Joseph had a garden,  Close by that sad green hillWhere Jesus died a bitter death  To save mankind from ill. One evening in that garden,  Their faces dark with gloom,They laid the Saviour’s body  Within good Joseph’s tomb. It was included in A&MR and AHB, and (after being dropped in A&MNS) in A&MCP. It is also in CH3 and HP. It had eight stanzas. Stanza 6 line 3 was ‘The Lord...