LYRA BRITANNICA

A COLLECTION OF BRITISH HYMNS

PRINTED FROM THE GENUINE TEXTS

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE HYMN WRITERS

BY THE

REV. CHARLES ROGERS

LL.D., F.S.A.SCOT.

SECOND EDITION

WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES

"How beautiful is Genius when combined

With Holiness! Oh, how Divinely sweet

The tones of earthly harp, whose chords are touched
By the soft hand of Piety, and hung

Upon Religion's shrine."

PROFESSOR WILSON

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

MDCCCLXVIII.