Within the Church's sacred fold. [H. Baptism .] Appeared in the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern. The author, Katherine D. Cornish, is the daughter of S. W. Cornish, sometime Vicar of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, and Head Master of the King's School there.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)