My hope is built on nothing less
My hope is built on nothing less. Edward Mote* (1797-1874).
First published anonymously in the Spiritual Magazine (before 1826) and then in An Appendix to the Second Edition of a Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1826), edited by John Rees. Mote’s account of its composition was that the refrain came first, and that he sang four stanzas to a friend (‘brother King’) and his dying wife. She liked them so much that he wrote two further stanzas, gave them to her, and printed off one thousand copies for distribution to friends. He then sent the hymn to the Spiritual Magazine. It was subsequently published in Mote’s own collection, Hymns of Praise. A New Selection of Gospel Hymns, combining all the...
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