- Full Text
- A)
When all thy mercies o’er me roll,
B)
Thy favors, Lord! surprise my soul.
- Listed on Page Number
- 315
- Sampler Worked By
- Latietia M. Washburn
- Date of Sampler
- 1825
- Place Sampler Made
- Orange (NJ?)
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 237
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- A) Addison, Joseph. The Spectator, August 9, 1712. Vol. 1-8, no. 453, London: Samuel Buckley, unpaginated. see also Stennett, Samuel. “Father at thy Call I Come,” A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watt’s Psalms and Hymns, 2nd ed., edited by John Rippon, A.M. London: L. Wayland, 1791, p. 270. B) Watts, Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. London: John Lawrence, 1707, p. 119.
- Notes
- A) https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-1711_1712-08-09_1-8_453/page/n1/mode/2up
See also: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-selection-of-hymns-fro_1790_1/page/n268/mode/1up?q=%22sorrow+o%27er+me+roll%22
B) https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_hymns-and-spiritual-song_watts-isaac_1707/page/119/mode/1up?q=surprize
While the second line is a certain use of Watt’s beginning to Hymn#45, the first line is not so straightforward. It seems to begin as Joseph Addison’s popular hymn, “When all thy mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys.” It then varies to add the phrase, “o’er me roll,” to better rhyme with soul in the next line. The phrase, “o’er me roll” may be inspired by a third hymn, “Father at thy Call I Come,” by Samuel Stennett, which contained the line, “Floods of sorrow o’er me roll.” But for this part it’s just as likely to have been a well-known phrase employed to make these cobbled together lines rhyme.