Let us with a gladsome mind
Let us with a gladsome mind. John Milton* (1608-1674).
Together with a metrical version of Psalm 114, this paraphrase of Psalm 136 was published in Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (1645). A note before Psalm 114 read: ‘This and the following Psalm were don by the Author at fifteen yeeres old’, which dates them at 1623 or 1624. This one had 24 verses, each ending ‘For his mercies ay endure/ Ever faithfull, ever sure.’
A six-verse selection was printed by Josiah Conder* in The Congregational Hymn Book (1836), and the psalm continued to exist in various 19th-century hymn books alongside other texts that were roughly based on Milton’s version (see JJ, p. 673). The best known of...
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