Oft in danger, oft in woe

Oft in danger, oft in woe. Henry Kirke White* (1785-1806), Frances Sara Fuller-Maitland* (1809-1877), and others. First published in William Bengo Collyer*’s Hymns partly collected and partly original, designed as a Supplement to Dr Watts’s Psalms and Hymns (1812). Collyer said that he had found ten lines of the hymn written on the back of an old mathematics paper belonging to White, who had died while still a Cambridge undergraduate: Much in sorrow, oft in woe,Onward Christians, onward go,Fight the fight, and worn with strife,Steep with tears the bread of life.Onward, Christians, onward go,Join the war, and face the foe:Faint not - much doth yet remain,Dreary is the long campaign.Shrink...