Thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown

Thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown. Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott* (1836-1897). Written for the choir of St Mark’s, Brighton, of which her father was the incumbent, and privately printed there in 1864. It was included in several books, mostly after 1870 (see JJ, p. 1169), and published in the Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor in 1870. Elliott revised the text for her Chimes for Daily Service (1880), producing the changed wording of the refrain in stanzas 4 and 5 (in the earlier printings all stanzas had ended ‘O come to my heart, Lord Jesus/ There is room in my heart for Thee’. The 1880 book altered to ‘Thy cross is my only plea’ and ‘And my heart shall rejoice, Lord...