Sweet place! Sweet place alone

Sweet place! Sweet place alone. Samuel Crossman* (1625-1684). From Crossman’s The Young Mans Meditation, or some few sacred poems upon select subjects, and scriptures, a small collection of nine hymns, included at the end of Crossman’s The Young Mans Monitor. Or, A modest Offer toward the Pious, and Vertuous Composure of Life from Youth to Riper Years (1664). The Young Mans Meditation was printed in facsimile by Daniel Sedgwick* in 1863, which made Crossman’s hymns available to the 19th century. This hymn was entitled ‘Heaven’, one of three hymns in the metre of the 148th Psalm (cf. ‘My song is love unknown’*). It had two parts. The present hymn forms Part I of Crossman’s text. Part II...