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All ye who seek a rest above

History of Godfrey Thring's Communion hymn "All ye who seek a rest above," written in 1863.

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"All ye who seek a rest above" is a Communion hymn composed by Godfrey Thring in 1863. Written in five six-line stanzas, it was first published in his 1866 collection Hymns Congregational and Others (pp. 72–73).

Thring included the text in his 1874 volume Hymns and Lyrics and in the first edition of his Church of England Hymn Book (1880). It was subsequently omitted from the second edition published in 1882.

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