LYRICS: by George Herbert,written in 1633
TUNE: Gwalmachai, composed by Joseph David Jones in 1868.
DESCANT : Chibuike N. Onyesoh

King of glory, King of peace. George Herbert* (1593-1633). Published after Herbert’s death as a poem in the collection The Temple (Cambridge, 1633) under the title ‘Praise (II)’, it was first used as a hymn by Robert Bridges* in the Yattendon Hymnal*. It derives inspiration from the psalms of praise, especially Psalm 116. It was originally in four-line stanzas. One of the seven stanzas of the original poem has been omitted and the remaining six conflated to form three stanzas in modern hymnbooks.

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