[84]Worship Song, 15; School Hymns, 6.
[85]There is a good sketch of Wither in Willmott’s Lives of the Sacred Poets, and an excellent biographical introduction by Mr. Edward Farr in The Hymns and Songs of the Church (Library of Old Authors). Both these volumes give striking portraits, the latter one of the poet in his twenty-first year, surrounded by the punning motto, ‘I grow and wither both together.’
[86]Barton did not always reach so high a level. One of his versions of the ‘Te Deum’ is in this fashion—
The blest Apo-
stles glorious company,
Do praise Thy ho-
ly Name continually.
[87]Religio Medici.
[88]The best illustration is the hymn beginning
Saviour, if Thy precious love,