Excerpt from Historical Notes to the Lyra Germanica: Containing Brief Memoirs of the Authors of the Hymns
The writer of this present work, who can truly say that "from a child" he has often experienced a delightful surprise on meeting with them here, in the land of his adoption, naturalized by beautiful translations, and sung to their old familiar tunes in church or chapel, or at some large gathering or festival. He ventures, therefore, now to offer this little volume as a humble tribute of joyful and grateful acknowledgment, not from an individual alone, but from the Evangelical Church of Germany, to those who have so faithfully transplanted her hymns, and made them bloom with fresh beauty and fragrance in other gardens beyond their native soil.
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