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Thread #57478   Message #906471
Posted By: Joe_F
10-Mar-03 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: Your Favourite Hymn
Subject: RE: Your Favourite Hymn
Haruo: No, by the Captain Kidd hymn I do not mean "What wondrous love is this", but yet another hymn to the same tune, which begins

Through all the world below
God is seen all around,
Search hills and valleys through,
There He's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare, God is there,
In meadows drest in green,
God is seen.

"Captain Kidd" is a silly name for it, but it is so called in Alan Lomax's _Folk Songs of North America_ (p. 70) & (probably as a consequence) in _Rise Up Singing_. The notes trace it to the _Columbian Harmony_ (1825) & say that it was "first sung in Maryland, early 19th century".