When he is mine and I am his, what can I want beside?
Grammar, romance and scriptural paraphrase
You don’t see much about Isaac Watts (1674-1748) these days, though he was with Wesley one of the two major English hymn writers of the early eighteenth century. For my money, Watts was a great and modest poet who channeled his very significant lyric gifts almost entirely into a disciplined kind of scriptural paraphrase and versified catechesis designed…
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