Let all things now living

Let all things now living. Katherine Kennicott Davis* (1892-1980). This eight-line hymn was first published in 1939 as an anthem by ‘John Cowley’, one of Davis’s pseudonyms: Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving To God the Creator triumphantly raise, Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us, Who guideth us on to the end of our days. His banners are o’er us, His light goes before us, A pillar of fire shining forth in the night, ’Til shadows have vanished and darkness is banished, As forward we travel from light into light. According to some sources, this stanza was written some time earlier, perhaps during the 1920s, as a text to fit the Welsh folk-song,...