First Line: | O Savior, whose mercy, severe in its kindness |
Author: | Robert Grant |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
O Saviour, Whose mercy severe in its kindness. Sir R. Grant. [Benefits of Affliction.] This poem is found in Sacred Poetry, 2nd Series, Edinburgh, W. Oliphant & Son, circa 1824, No. 149, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines, headed "Benefit of Affliction," and signed "Sir Robert Grant.” In Grant's posthumous Sacred Poems, 1839, it was given unaltered as No. v., with the text "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest. Psalm xliv. 12." It is given in full in H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and other American hymnbooks. In the Boston Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 586, "I thought that the course of the pilgrim to heaven," is composed of stanzas v.-vii.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)