O worship the King, All-glorious above
O worship the King, All-glorious above. Sir Robert Grant* (1780-1838).
First published in Psalms, Partly Original and Partly Extracted from Various Authors, and Adapted to Public Worship, 2nd Edition, Revised (Clapham: H.N. Batten, 1824), edited by John Venn. It was also in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of St. Mary’s, St. Giles’s, and Trinity Churches, Reading (Reading, 1830). It was included in Edward Bickersteth*’s Christian Psalmody (1833), and then in Henry Venn Elliott’s Psalms and Hymns for Public, Private and Social Worship (1835).
It was included in in the collection of Grant’s hymns and poems published by his brother Charles Grant, Lord Glenelg* after Robert’s...
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