I was a wandering sheep

I was a wandering sheep. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889).  This hymn was published in the first series of Bonar’s Songs in the Wilderness (1843), where it was entitled  ‘Lost but Found’ . It was headed ‘Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls, 1 Pet. ii. 25’. Bonar then included in it in his Bible Hymn Book (1845), and in Hymns of Faith and Hope, First Series (1857) (JJ, p. 559). In the 1857 volume it was still entitled ‘Lost but Found’, but it was preceded by a quotation from an ‘Old Hymn’: Arte mira, miro consilio, Quaerens ovem suam summus opilio, Ut nos revocaret ab exilio. (‘wonderful art, wonderful design, from the beginning the great...