The Saviour, O what endless charms

The Saviour, O what endless charms. Anne Steele* (1716-1778).  In Volume I of Steele’s Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional (1760), there is a long poem of 39 stanzas entitled ‘Redeeming Love’. It began:  Come, heavenly love, inspire my song  With thy immortal flame, And teach my heart, and teach my tongue  The Saviour’s lovely name.  The hymn as it is usually found in hymnals, is a selection from the 39 stanzas. John Dobell*, who included it in A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns for Private, Family, and Public Worship (1806), and its successor, A New Selection of More than Eight Hundred Evangelical Hymns… (n.d., but before 1825, when it was printed in America), used five...