Unto the hills around do I lift up My longing eyes

Unto the hills around do I lift up/ My longing eyes. John Douglas Sutherland Campbell* (1845-1914). This metrical version of Psalm 121 dates from 1877. It was included in Campbell’s The Book of Psalms: literally rendered in verse (1877), where it was the second paraphrase of the Psalm. Written in the metre of ‘Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom’*, it has normally been set to SANDON by Charles Henry Purday*, although AHB uses ALBERTA, by William Henry Harris*. It succeeds remarkably in preserving the rhythms and phrases of the Psalm in the Book of Common Prayer: Unto the hills around do I lift up  My longing eyes,O whence for me shall my salvation come,  From whence arise?From God...