Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord

Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord. Benjamin Waugh* (1839-1908). First published in The Sunday Magazine, of which Waugh was the editor from 1874 to 1896. The first line was ‘O let me see Thy beauty, Lord’. It was altered to the text now commonly used, with the first line as above, by W. Garrett Horder* in Congregational Hymns (1884) and in Worship-Song (1905). It was also published in Waugh’s Hymns for Children (1892). It has remained in use in Baptist, Congregational/URC, and Methodist books, though recently with some changes. Older books (MHB, CP, BHB) print six stanzas; more recent books (HP, RS) omit the original stanza 4 because of the word ‘men’ (a rhyming word, so it is difficult to...