O Jesu, thou art standing

O Jesu, Thou art standing. William Walsham How* (1823-1897). Written in 1867, this was first published in the supplement of the same year to How and Morrell’s Psalms and Hymns (1854; enlarged edition, 1864, with Supplement, 1867) in three 8-line stanzas. It was then included in the Appendix (1868) to the First Edition of A&M, in Church Hymns (1871, Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874), and in many subsequent hymn books, in three stanzas of 8 lines. ‘Jesu’ in line 1 is normally changed to ‘Jesus’. The original was: O Jesu, Thou art standing  Outside the fast-closed door,In lowly patience waiting  To pass the threshold o’er;Shame on us, Christian brothers,  His name and sign who bear,O shame,...