2. Behold us, Lord, before Thee met. Confirmation. Printed in the Monthly Packet, Nov. 1867, and, in a revised form, in the Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1868.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Behold us, Lord, before Thee met, p. 182, ii. 2. As the third stanza of this hymn has been re-written a second time by the Compilers of Hymns Ancient & Modern for their new ed., 1904, we give Canon Bright's original text from the Monthly Packet, Nov. 1867:—
"From Thee was our baptismal grace,
The holy seed by Thee was sown;
In this full sunlight of Thy face,
We make the three great vows our own,
And ask in Thine appointed way.
Confirm us in Thy grace to-day."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)