Come, thou almighty will, Our fainting bosoms fill

Top Text Info Notes Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

Come, thou almighty will, Our fainting bosoms fill

Tune: ITALIAN HYMN
Published in 10 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Art of Hymn Playing Volume II - Intr…

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Come, thou almighty will, Our fainting bosoms fill
Source:	Hymns of the Spirit
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Notes

Come, Thou almighty Will. [Invocation.] Appeared anonymously in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 7, in 3 stanzas of 7 lines. It is repeated in later hymnals, and still Anon.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

^ top

Tune

ITALIAN HYMN

Felice de Giardini (b. Turin, Italy, 1716; d. Moscow, Russia, 1796) composed ITALIAN HYMN in three parts for this text at the request of Selina Shirley, the famous evangelically minded Countess of Huntingdon. Giardini was living in London at the time and contributed this tune and three others to Mar…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'Come, thou almighty will, Our fainting bosoms fill'^ top