530. As with gladness men of old
William Chatterdon Dix, 1837-98
A popular Epiphany hymn, written on Epiphany Day, about 1858, while the author was sick in bed. After reading the Gospel of the day, Dix started writing this hymn and finished it by evening.
For comments on William Chatterdon Dix, see [Hymn 78].
MUSIC. DIX is an abridgement of a melody written by Conrad Kocher and first published in his Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes, Stuttgart, 1838.
For comments on Kocher see [Hymn 51].