O Lord, be with us when we sail

O Lord, be with us when we sail. Edward Arthur Dayman* (1807-1890). Written in 1865, it was published in The Sarum Hymnal (1868), edited by Dayman with Horatio Bolton Nelson* and James Russell Woodford*. In this version it had twelve stanzas, consisting of a ‘General Heading’, three short parts, and a doxology to be sung after each part: To Thee the Father, Thee the Son,   Whom earth and sky adore, And Spirit, moving on the deep,   Be praise for evermore. It was rapidly picked up by other books such as A Church of England Hymn Book (1880) edited by Godfrey Thring*, and it is found in the Supplement of 1889 to the Second Edition of A&M and in A&M (1904), both of which concluded with...