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As high as the heavens, and as vast

An entry on Josiah Conder's metrical paraphrase of Psalm 36.

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Authored by Josiah Conder, this metrical rendering of Psalm 36 appeared in his Hymns of Praise, Prayer, and Devout Meditation (1856, p. 13) in five stanzas of four lines. In 1859, it was republished in an unaltered form in the New Congregational Hymn Book (No. 49).

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