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204 The poem is by Jean Ingelow, who describes a pair of brothers listening to the parson of the fishing village

Holman Hunt's picture, 'The Light of the World,' now at Keble College, Oxford, had its influence on the hymn.

{{fine|Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, London, 1741; Works, iii. 64. Fourteen verses. Verses I, 12, 13, 14. A little hymn of pure gold is made by omitting ten prosaic verges. {{nop}}