Great God, what do I see and hear
Great God, what do I see and hear. William Bengo Collyer* (1782-1854) and others.
Stanza 1 of this hymn was published anonymously in a volume entitled Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (Sheffield, 1802), and subsequently in two books dating from 1810, John Kempthorne’s Select Portions of Psalms from Various Translations, and Hymns, from Various Authors (JJ, p. 616) and Robert Aspland’s Psalms and Hymns for Unitarian Worship. Collyer could have seen the stanza in any one of these three books. To it he added three further stanzas, beginning ‘The dead in Christ are first to rise’, ‘Far over space, to distant spheres’, and ‘Stay, fancy stay, and close thy wings’. He published this in his...
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