Behold the Prince of Peace. J. Needham. [Meekness and Tenderness of Jesus.] First published in his Hymns, &c, 1768, No. 87, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines. The form, however, in which the hymn beginning with this first line is known is a cento, thus composed:—stanzas i.-iii. as above; stanzas iv., v., "Jesus! Thou light of men," &c; from Needham's "Long had the nations sat," stanzas v., vi. In this form it is found in Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage Hymn Book, Birmingham, 1882, and others.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)