Ancient of ages! humbly bent before Thee. Sir J. Bowring. [Missions.] A short hymn on behalf of missions, of more than usual merit. It appeared in his Hymns, 1825, in 2 stanzas of 7 lines. In Miss Courtauld's Unitarian Psalms, Hymns and Anthems, London, 1860, it is given as No. 10.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)