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THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 285 "Collection, (1822), gives the name "Keen" to this hymn. In other collections it is attributed to "Kennedy." It is probably a hymn given to Rippon for his collection, but without the author's name.

first appears in "Psalms and Hymns, selected from Various Authors, with Occasional Alterations, for the use of a Parochial Church. By a Country Clergyman. London, 1807." The hymn has this note "At the moment of closing this little collection, I am favoured with the above hymn from my obliging friend. This almost extemporaneous effusion of his peculiarly neat and poetic pen was excited by my expressing (in a letter soliciting some psalmodic information) much regret that I had only one set of words for Handel's simple, sublime tune for the 104th Psalm." The third verse of the hymn is omitted in the "New Congregational Hymn Book."

Mr. Park was the author of "Nugæ Modernæ, &c., 1818," a work of prose and poetry on various subjects. He was employed in the editorship of various works, including the works of J. Hammond, 1805; the works of John Dryden, 1806; the works of T. Warton; a work called "Nugae Antiquæ, by Sir J. Harrington;" and the works of the British Poets, in forty-two small volumes, 1808. The Harleian Miscellany was published under his direction in the same year. Mr. Park was brought up as an engraver, but gave his attention to literary pursuits. He died in 1835.

Rev. H. Auber Harvey, rector of Tring, whose father edited the work by which Miss Auber is known, has kindly supplied the