OXFORD:

Printed by E. Pickard Hall, M.A., and J. H. Stacy,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

THE Editors of this work are desirous to acknowledge the permission which they have received to use several Copyright Hymns which are contained in it. Their best thanks are due to

Messrs. Longman, for Nos. 117, 118, 119, 120, taken from the Lyra Germanica. Mrs. Babington, for two of Miss C. Elliott's Hymns, Nos. 98, 99.

The Rev. Dr. Newman, for No. 97.

Messrs. Nisbet and the Rev. Dr. Bonar, for Nos. 104, 105.

Messrs. Rivington, for No. 95.

Mr. H. M. Lyte, for No. 96, by the late
Rev. H. F. Lyte.

Messrs. Murray, for No. 91, by the late
Dean Milman.

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The Rev. H. Twells, for No. 106.

Miss F. E. Cox, for Nos. 112, 113, translated by her from the German.

The Rev. N. R. Toke, for No. 101, by his mother, Mrs. E. Toke.

Messrs. Parker, for No. 100, by the late Rev. Isaac Williams.

Mrs. Greg, for Nos. 102, 103, by the late Mr. S. Greg.

The Rev. E. Caswall, for No. 114.

The Rev. J. Ellerton, for No. 110.

The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, formerly a Scholar of Balliol College, for No. 108.

Balliol College,

June, 1877.

FOR

BALLIOL COLLEGE.

THE OLD VERSION. (1562.)

Psalm xviii.

O GOD, my strength and fortitude,
Of force I must love Thee;
Thou art my castle and defence
In my necessity:

My God, my rock in whom I trust,
The worker of my wealth,
My refuge, buckler, and my shield,
The horn of all my health.

I when beset with pain and grief
Did pray to God for grace:
And He forthwith did hear my plaint
Out of His holy place.

The Lord descended from above,

And bowed the heavens on high: And underneath His feet He cast The darkness of the sky;

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