Thou to whom the sick and dying
Thou to whom the sick and dying. Godfrey Thring* (1823-1903).
Written in 1870 for the 1871 supplement to Hymns for the Church Services, edited by H.W. Hutton, prebendary of Lincoln, and included, with minor revisions, in Thring’s Hymns and Sacred Lyrics (1874). In A&M (1904), A&MS and A&MR the second stanza, beginning ‘Every care and every sorrow’ was omitted:
Every care and every sorrow,
Be it great, or be it small,
Yesterday, to-day, to-morrow,
When - whate’er it may befal,
Lay we humbly at Thy feet,
Suppliants at Thy mercy-seat.
Without this stanza the A&M text is followed in most later hymn books, although MHB (1933) gives all five stanzas and a few books print only...
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