How high Thou art! our songs can own
How high Thou art! our songs can own. Elizabeth Barrett Browning* (1806-1861).
This is one of the four hymns printed by Elizabeth Barrett (as she then was) in The Seraphim, and other poems (1838) (cf. ‘God named Love, whose fount Thou art’*). This was ‘Hymn II’, entitled ‘The Mediator’. It was prefaced by ‘As the greatest of all sacrifices was required, we may be assured that no other would have sufficed.’ - BOYD’s Essay on the Atonement.’ This refers to Hugh Stuart Boyd’s An Essay on the Greek Article; to which is added, an Essay on the Atonement, of which the only extant copy seems to be that of the Second Edition (1835).
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