Still Water

Author: William Knox

Born: August 17, 1789, Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland. Died: November 12, 1825, Edinburgh, Scotland. Buried: New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. Knox, William, born at Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Aug. 17, 1789, and educated at the parish school, and the grammar school at Musselburgh. For some time he was engaged in farming at Wrae, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire; but not succeeding to his satisfaction, he left Wrae in 1817, and finally settled in Edinburgh in 1820, where he subsequently obtained employment as a contributor to the public journals. He died in Edinburgh, Nov. 12, 1825. His poetical works were, (1) The Lonely Hearth, North Shields, 1818 ; (2) Songs of Israel, 1824; (3) The Harp of Zion, 1825; and (4) the… Go to person page >

The Lord is my Shepherd, He makes me repose. W. Knox. [Psalm xxiii.] Appeared in his Songs of Israel, &c, 1824, and again in his posthumous Poems, 1847, p. 107, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. It is in a few modern hymnbooks only, including the Songs for the Sanctuary, N. Y., 1865.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)