With hearts in love abounding
With hearts in love abounding. Harriet Auber* (1773-1862).
Published in The Spirit of the Psalms: or, a compressed version of select portions of the Psalms of David, adapted to Christian worship (1829), where it is Auber’s version of Psalm 45. It was printed in the SPCK Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship (1852), edited by Thomas Vincent Fosbery*. In that book it was headed ‘After Trinity Sunday’, and printed in three 8-line stanzas:
With hearts in love abounding, Prepare we now to singA lofty theme, resounding Thy praise, Almighty King;Whose love, rich gifts bestowing, Redeem’d the human race;Whose lips, with zeal o’erflowing, Breathe words of truth and grace.
So reign, O God, in...
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