William James Kirkpatrick
1838–1921 · United States · Romantic
Composer
William J. Kirkpatrick (Duncannon, PA, 1838–1921): and joined in the 1890s to this versification of Psalm 148, with the original seventh stanza becoming the refrain. The tune was published with an 1899 copyright date in Life Songs, a 1916 publication of the Mennonite Publishing