Where, O my soul, O where

Author: Thomas Scott

Thomas Scott was born at Norwich, and was the son of a Dissenting minister. After his education he began his ministerial life at Wartmell, in Norfolk, adding also the labours of school-teaching. Subsequently he changed his pastoral relations several times, spending the last years of his life at Hupton, in Norfolk, where he died in 1776. He was the author of some prose works, several poems, and a few hymns. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872… Go to person page >

Where, O my soul, O where? T. Scott. [Lent.] From his Lyric Poems, 1773, p. 72, into a few modern hymnals.

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