Hosanna, loud hosanna

Hosanna, loud hosanna. Jennette Threlfall* (1821-1880). This delightful Palm Sunday hymn was first published in Threlfall’s Sunshine and Shadow (1873). It was found in the Scottish Church Hymnary (1898) and in successive Scottish books, RCH, CH3 and CH4, and in Methodist books, such as MHB and The School Hymn Book of the Methodist Church (1950). It catches the Palm Sunday moment through the innocence of children with an admirable simplicity: Hosanna, loud hosanna,  The little children sang;Through pillared court and temple,  The lovely anthem rang;To Jesus, who had blessed them,  Close folded to His breast,The children sang their praises,  The simplest and the best. From Olivet they...