King of my life, I crown thee now
King of my life, I crown thee now. Jennie E. Hussey* (1874-1958).
First published in New Songs of Praise and Power, No 3 (1921), with a tune by William J. Kirkpatrick* entitled DUNCANNON or LEST WE FORGET. The second title refers to Hussey’s well-known refrain:
Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget thine agony,
Lest I forget thy love to me,
Lead me to Calvary.
The hymn has appeared in many evangelical books on both sides of the Atlantic: in Britain it is found in Praise! (2000) in the ‘you’ form, and in the traditional text in many other books, including the Song Book of the Salvation Army (1986...
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