Upon the virgin mother's breast

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Upon the Virgin Mother's breast. Bp. E. H. Bickersteth. [The Presentation.] Written in 1883, and published in his From Year to Year, 1883, in 11 stanzas of 4 lines. In the 1890 edition of the Hymnal Companion it is abbreviated to 6 stanzas.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer with accompanying tunes (3rd ed., rev. and enl.) (1893), p.487