
A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #956
Display Title: Awake my soul, to meet the day First Line: Awake my soul, to meet the day Date: 1875
A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #956
First Line: | Awake my soul, to meet the day |
Title: | Morning |
Author: | Philip Doddridge |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Awake, my soul, to meet the day. P. Doddridge. [Morning.] This hymn is in the “D. MSS." but undated. In 1755, it was published by J. Orton in Doddridge's Hymns, &c, No. 362, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines without alteration, .the title being, "A morning hymn, to be used at awaking and rising." It was republished in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the Hymns, 1839, No. 389. It is not in common use in Great Britain. In the American Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1878, stanzas i., ii., vi., vii., are given, somewhat altered, as No. 96.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)