Favourite Welsh Hymns

The Saviour’s only crown on earth was thorns. “Could Earth no other garland find?” asks the hymn—and what crown might a contrite world offer in return?

In these mid-nineteenth-century English translations, Welsh hymns turn questions of faith into vivid song: a storm-tossed soul seeks a rock beneath its feet, while the Creator of stars lies as an infant and dies upon a tree. Joseph Morris gives voice to praise, grief, repentance and hope, keeping the poems close to the heart of worship. Their singers face hardship, death and the fear of what lies beyond the grave, yet answer with a recurring call to trust in Christ crucified. What comfort—and what challenge—waits in these verses?

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