Lord of All Being, Throned Afar

"Lord of All Being, Throned Afar" is a hymn text that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Described by John Julian as "a hymn of great merit",[1] on the theme of the Omnipresence of God, the hymn is in Long Meter (i.e. stanzas of four eight-syllable lines). It is most frequently set, in American hymnals, to the tunes LOUVAN, MENDON, and ARIZONA, and in Commonwealth hymnals often to OMBERSLEY.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.hymnary.org/text/lord_of_all_being_throned_afar#Author
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