Two of our best American hymn writers are two of our national poets—Whittier and Holmes. The hymns of Whittier are beautiful in their simplicity, sincerity, and universal application:
In simple trust like those who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise up and follow Thee.
and the universally known hymn, beginning
We may not climb the heavenly steeps.
The splendid hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes, commencing
Lord of all being, throned afar,