O thou, at whose dread name we bend

O thou, at whose dread name we bend

Author: Charles Sprague
Published in 16 hymnals

Author: Charles Sprague

Sprague, Charles. (Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791--January 22, 1875, Boston). A Unitarian layman. Although a businessman without an education he wrote much verse which brought him considerable reputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One of them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Cambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few years later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A collection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, and a hymn attributed to "C. Sprague" is included in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Chris… Go to person page >

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First Line: O thou, at whose dread name we bend
Author: Charles Sprague
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (45th ed.) #692

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A Service Book #193b

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Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship #757

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Church Melodies #425

Grammar School Hymn Book #d192

Hymns for Children and Young Persons #d323

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #987

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #987

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Hymns for the Church of Christ (3rd thousand) #461

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Hymns for the Church of Christ. (6th thousand) #461

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Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #66

Songs of the Unity #d149

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The Psalms of Life #69

The Saints' Harp #d631

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The School Hymn-Book #278

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