God is our refuge and our strength, When trouble's hour is near

Author: Henry Alford

Alford, Henry, D.D., son of  the Rev. Henry Alford, Rector of Aston Sandford, b. at 25 Alfred Place, Bedford Row, London, Oct. 7, 1810, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in honours, in 1832. In 1833 he was ordained to the Curacy of Ampton. Subsequently he held the Vicarage of Wymeswold, 1835-1853,--the Incumbency of Quebec Chapel, London, 1853-1857; and the Deanery of Canterbury, 1857 to his death, which took. place  at  Canterbury, Jan. 12, 1871.  In addition he held several important appointments, including that of a Fellow of Trinity, and the Hulsean Lectureship, 1841-2. His literary labours extended to every department of literature, but his noblest undertaking was his edition of the Greek Testament, the result… Go to person page >

God is our Refuge and our Strength. H. Alford. [Ps. xlvi.] First published in the British Magazine, Dec, 1832, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and signed ł. In 1833 it was reprinted in his anonymous Poems and Poetical Fragments. When given in his Psalms & Hymns, 1844, p. 75, stanzas iv,-vi. were omitted. The text of the Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, U. S. A., 1864, No. 310, is from the original. [William T. Brooke]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)