Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all
Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all. Henry Collins* (1827-1919).
Published in Collins’s Hymns for Missions (Leeds, 1854, later republished in London), the book compiled during his brief tenure of a post in the Church of England. It is one of only two hymns by Collins in that book.
It bears a striking – and confusing – resemblance to a hymn by Frederick William Faber* for the Feast of Corpus Christi, published in his Hymns (1849) and in his Jesus and Mary (1849), beginning
Jesus! my Lord, my God, my All, How can I love Thee as I ought?
(the second line is identical to Collins’s verse 2 line 2).
This had the refrain
Sweet Sacrament! we Thee adore! O, make us love Thee more and more!
It is hard to...
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