"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching." Luke 12:37
Words: Joseph Addison, in The Spectator (London, England), September 20, 1712. The hymn followed an essay on "Greatness" as a source of pleasure to the imagination, with special reference to the ocean; it was introduced with:
Great painters do not only give us Landskips of Gardens, Groves, and Meadows, but very often employ their Pencils on Sea-Pieces. I could wish you would follow their example. If this small Sketch may deserve a Place among your Works, I shall accompany it with a Divine ode, made by a Gentleman upon the Conclusion of his Travels.
Music: "Praetorius," Harmoniae Hymnorum Scholae Gorlicensis, 1599
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