A Church of England Hymn Book #228
Display Title: All that’s good and great and true First Line: All that’s good and great and true Meter: 77 77 Date: 1880
A Church of England Hymn Book #228
All that's good and great and true,
All that is, and is to be–
Be it old, or be it new–
Comes, O Father, all from thee.
Amen.
Source: Children's Hymnal #127
First Line: | All that's good, and great, and true |
Title: | All that's Good and Great and True |
Author: | Godfrey Thring |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
All that's good, and great, and true. Godfrey Thring. [Praise and Thanksgiving.] Written in 1863, and first published in his Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866, No. 24, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled “Nature's Harmony." It was repeated in his Hymns and Lyrics, 1874, pp. 108-9, and again in his Church of England Hymn Book, 1882, where it is given most appropriately as a hymn for children.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)