My God! how wonderful thou art
My God! how wonderful thou art. Frederick William Faber* (1814-1863).
First published in Faber’s Jesus and Mary; or, Catholic Hymns for Singing and Reading (1849), and again in his Hymns (1862), in nine stanzas, with the title ‘Our Heavenly Father’. Seven stanzas were included in the First Edition of A&M (1861), and this has remained the usual length of the hymn. A&M altered the affecting repetition at the beginning of stanza 3 from ‘How beautiful, how beautiful’ to ‘How wonderful, how beautiful’, and this has been frequently followed.
The stanzas omitted by A&M, and by most books since that time, are 6 and 8:
Oh then this worse than worthless heart In pity deign to take,
And...
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