Honour/Honor and glory, thanksgiving and praise

Honour/Honor and glory, thanksgiving and praise. Edward Arthur Dayman* (1807-1890). This was Dayman’s translation of a 12th-century Latin hymn for Advent, ‘Jubilemus omnes una’ (JJ, p. 608). Its first printing  was in The Hymnary (1872) edited by William Cooke* and Benjamin Webb*, but thereafter it was hardly used in British books. In the USA, however, it became well enough known to be given the title, in several books, of ‘American Hymn’. It had seven stanzas, although the last two, and stanza 3, were sometimes omitted. Thus a text of four stanzas often began with the following first lines: Honor and glory, thanksgiving and praise… Thou art the Father of heaven and earth… Earth with the...