From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go:
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land to sea.
William Whiting was born at Kensington, London, Nov. 1, 1825. He was Master of Winchester College Chorister's School Died in 1878.
THE TUNE.
The choral named “Melita” (in memory of St. Paul's shipwreck) was composed by Dr. Dykes in 1861, and its strong and easy chords and 425 / 371 moderate note range are nobly suited to the devout hymn.
“THE OCEAN HATH NO DANGER.”
This charming sailors' lyric is the work of the Rev. Godfrey Thring. Its probable date is 1862, and it appeared in Morell and Howe's collection and in Hymns Congregational and Others, published in 1866, which contained a number from his pen. Rector Thring was born at Alford, Somersetshire, Eng., March 25, 1823, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Baliol College, Oxford. In 1858 he succeeded his father as Rector of Alford.
He compiled A Church of England Hymnbook in 1880.