The Christian Minstrel #d9
Display Title: As pants the hart for cooling flood [springs] [streams] First Line: As pants the hart for cooling flood [springs] [streams] Author: James Merrick Date: 1846
The Christian Minstrel #d9
First Line: | As pants the hart for cooling springs, So longs my soul, O King of kings |
Title: | As Pants the Hart for Cooling Springs |
Author: | James Merrick |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
As pants the hart for cooling springs. J. Merrick. [Ps. xlii.] This metrical paraphrase of Ps. xlii. appeared in Merrick's Psalms Tr. or Paraphrased in English Verse, 1765, in 16 stanzas of 4 lines. Various compilations have been made therefrom, as in Collyer's Selection of 1812, the Islington Collection of 1830, and others.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)