Let me no more my comfort draw

Let me no more my comfort draw

Author: John Campbell Shairp
Tune: DEDHAM
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: John Campbell Shairp

Shairp, John Campbell, LL.D., s. of Major Norman Shairp, was b. at Houstoun, West Lothian, July 30, 1819; student at the Univ. of Glasgow 1836-9; Snell Exhib., Balliol College Ox., 1840, and Newdigate Prize 1842. For a time he was assistant master at Rugby, then Professor of Latin at St. Andrews 1861; Principal of the United Coll., St Andrews, 1868, and Prof, of Poetry, Oxford, 1877. He died at Ormsary, Argyllshire, Sept. 18, 1885. The LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh in 1884. His hymn:— Twixt gleams of joy and clouds of doubt. [God the Unchangeable.] Appeared in his Glen Desseray and other Poems, 1888, p. 265, and marked as having been written in 1871. It is in several collections, especially in America (e… Go to person page >

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First Line: Let me no more my comfort draw
Author: John Campbell Shairp
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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University Hymn Book for use in the Chapel of Harvard University #d108

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College Hymnal #162

Sursum Corda #602a

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Sursum Corda #602b

The Baptist Hymn and Praise Book #d285

The Harvard University Hymn Book #d128

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