Awake, my soul, to grateful praise

Awake, my soul, to grateful praise. [Morning.] This nineteenth-century morning hymn consists of 5 stanzas of 4 lines. It was first published in the Reverend John Hampden Gurney's Lutterworth Collection of Hymns (1838, No. 15), where it was assigned to an author named "Gardiner." Beyond this initial editorial attribution, very little is known regarding the author's precise identity or background.

The hymn was subsequently republished with the same authorship credit in Gurney's larger Marylebone Psalms and Hymns (1851). A decade later, Dr. Benjamin Hall Kennedy included the text in his broad hymnal collection, Hymnologia Christiana (1863), though he omitted any author attribution or date. While the piece served as an uplifting morning devotion for Anglican congregations during the mid-nineteenth century, it did not achieve permanent adoption in major mainstream hymn books of the later Victorian era.