Chapel Hymns and Services #d136
Display Title: Unheard the dews around me fall First Line: Unheard the dews around me fall Author: Philip Doddridge Date: 1923
Chapel Hymns and Services #d136
First Line: | Unheard the dews around me fall |
Author: | Philip Doddridge |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Unheard the dews around me fall.
[Peace amid silence.] This hymn appeared anonymously in Dr. G. W. Briggs's (Unitarian) Hymns for Public Worship, Boston, 1845, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. It was repeated in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, and later American collections; and in Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. In Stopford A. Brooke's Christian Hymns, 1881, No. 177, it is slightly altered, and another stanza (iv.) is added. This text is repeated in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, No. 438.
John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)