Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh

Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh. Harriet Beecher Stowe* (1811-1896).  Written in 1853, and published in The Plymouth Collection* of Hymns and Tunes (New York, 1855), edited by Stowe’s brother, Henry Ward Beecher*. It had six stanzas, and was found in the ‘Praise, Joy, Conflict’ section. It was then printed in Hymns of the Spirit (Boston, 1864), the major Unitarian collection edited by Samuel Longfellow* and Samuel Johnson*. It became more widely known when Beecher’s book was taken up by the Baptists after the Civil War, as The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book: being ‘The Plymouth Collection’ enlarged and adapted to the use of Baptist Churches (1868). It was printed in Stowe’s...