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Thread #57478   Message #904390
Posted By: Haruo
05-Mar-03 - 08:45 PM
Thread Name: Your Favourite Hymn
Subject: RE: Your Favourite Hymn
There are so many! Probably the two that I enjoy singing to myself (and God) the most would be His voice, as the sound of the dulcimer sweet and Come away to the skies. The former is apparently a different cento from the same work of Joseph Swain's from which the better-known (but I think less pleasing) O Thou in whose presence my soul takes delight is drawn. Incidentally, although the Cyber Hymnal and every other source I've seen attributes "O Thou..." to Swain's Redemption : A Poem in Five Books, I have seen that poem of Swain's and can attest that it is in blank verse, and has no stanzaic structure that I could ascertain. What gives?

I do like all the others suggested, though when singing How firm a foundation I much prefer to sing all seven stanzas; even though I think the Mormons are the only ones who print the whole thing in their hymnal, and me a Baptist.

Haruo