Teach me to live! 'tis easier far to die. [Consecration of Self to Christ.] This is given in the 1872 edition of Snepp's Songs of Grace and Glory, as from a "Dublin Leaflet, 1860." In the Musical edition of 1880 he gives the writer's name as "Ellen Elizabeth Burman, 1860."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)