1834. "Earth to heaven, and heaven to earth
Tell his wonders, sing His worth."
1836. "Earth, to heaven exalt the strain,
Send it, heaven, to earth again."
Both texts are in common use, but the first, as in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871; the Hymnal Companion, 1876, and many others, is the more widely used of the two.
Praise the Lord, His glories show . H. F. Lyle. [Ps. cl.] Lyte's original version of Ps. cl., appeared in his Spirit of the Psalms, 1834, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, and his revised version in the enlarged edition of the same work in 1836. The two texts may be distinguished by st. ii. 11. 1, 2 thus:—
1834. "Earth to heaven, and heaven to earth
Tell his wonders, sing His worth."
1836. "Earth, to heaven exalt the strain,
Send it, heaven, to earth again."
Both texts are in common use,… Read More
Praise the Lord, His glories show . H. F. Lyle. [Ps. cl.] Lyte's original version of Ps. cl., appeared in his Spirit of the Psalms, 1834, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, and his revised version in the enlarged edition of the same work in 1836. The two texts may be distinguished by st. ii. 11. 1, 2 thus:—
1834. "Earth to heaven, and heaven to earth
Tell his wonders, sing His worth."
1836. "Earth, to heaven exalt the strain,
Send it, heaven, to earth again."
Both texts are in common use, but the first, as in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871; the Hymnal Companion, 1876, and many others, is the more widely used of the two.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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