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New born, I bless the waking hour

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New born, I bless the waking hour

Hymnal: Hymns for the Church of Christ (3rd thousand) #414 (1853) Languages: English

New born, I bless the waking hour

Hymnal: Hymns for the Church of Christ. (6th thousand) #414 (1857) Languages: English

1715 - 1773 Person Name: J. Hawkesworth Author of "New born, I bless the waking hour" Hawkesworth, John, LL.D. (b. 1715, and d. Nov. 1773), a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, proprietor and editor of the Adventurer, and friend of Johnson, Warton, and other literary men of note, published, in 1760, Poems and Translations, and was the author of the well-known Morning hymn "In sleep's serene oblivion laid." This hymn was composed in 1773, "about a month before his death, in a wakeful hour of the night, and dictated to his wife on rising. It appeared in the Universal Theological Magazine for March, 1802." (Miller's Singers & Songs, &c, p. 210.) It was given in Collyer's Selection, 1812; the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853; and others; and is in somewhat extensive use in America. It sometimes begins, as in the American Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, with stanza ii., "Newborn, I bless the waking hour." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology