What countless crowd on Sion stands

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What countless crowd on Zion stands. J. Anstice. [All Saints.] First published in his posthumous Hymns, 1836, p. 37, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and again in The Child's Christian Year, 1841. In the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858, stanzas i.-iii., vi., iv. are re-written (from 8.8.8.6.) in C. M.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)