Author of all in earth and sky. A. M. Toplady. [Lent.] First appeared in his Poems on Sacred Subjects, 1759, in 22 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled "The Prayer of King Manasses Paraphrased." It was subsequently included in his Hymns, &c., 1856, p. 83, and in Sedgwick's reprint of the Hymns, 1860. The hymn "Bowed with the sense of sin I faint" is composed of stanzas xv.-xix. and xxi. of the original.
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