A Collection of Hymns #449
Display Title: Far, far o'er hill and dell, on the winds stealing First Line: Far, far o'er hill and dell, on the winds stealing Date: 1859
A Collection of Hymns #449
First Line: | Far, far over hill and dale [dell] |
Title: | Far Over Hill and Dale |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Far, far o'er hill and dell, on the winds stealing. [Heaven anticipated]. Appeared anonymously in Winchell's Appendix to his Arrangement of Watts, 1832, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. It is repeated in later collections, including H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855; the Baptist Praise Book 1871, and other American collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)