Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing. Henry James Buckoll* (1803-1871). This hymn has the same first line, and the same metre, as one by John Fawcett*, and another by Robert Hawker*, printed in the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904) and elsewhere. Fawcett’s hymn, and Hawker’s, are annotated separately. Buckoll may have used Fawcett as a model when writing this hymn for the end of a school term; but Hawker’s hymn is contemporary with Buckoll’s, and there is another hymn with this first line (see ‘Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing. Author unknown’). See JJ, pp. 686-8. While Fawcett’s text is the one found in most church hymnbooks, Buckoll’s has been widely used in schools, normally in...