My heart is resting, O my God
My heart is resting, O my God. Anna Laetitia Waring* (1823-1910).
First published in the Fourth Edition of Hymns and Meditations by A.L.W. (1854), with the title ‘“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him” — Lamentations iii.24.’ It had eleven 8-line verses, although verse 7 is oddly divided into two quatrains. Many different abbreviations have been made, from the four-verse text in MHB (verses 1-3 and 11), to the three-verse one in BHB (1a + 2a, 3b + 2b, 11) and the six 4-line verses (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3b, 4b altered) of The Moravian Hymn Book (1914). These selections normally begin with the first line as above; JJ (p. 781) notes an American Unitarian book, Hymn...
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