258 Awake, Our Souls! Away, Our Fears
Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
A free rendering of Isaiah 40:28-31.
The hymn is from Watts’ Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, where it is headed, “The Christian Race.”
For comments on Isaac Watts see Hymn 11.
MUSIC. SAMSON. This tune is an adaptation, a very considerable one, from Chorus 31: “Then round about the starry throne,” in Handel’s oratorio, Samson. The tune is taken from various parts of the chorus.
For comments on Handel see Hymn 70.