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Listen to the beginner piano arrangement of O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing.
To commemorate the renewal of his faith following a particularly difficult illness, Charles Wesley wrote an 18-stanza poem, beginning with the opening lines Glory to God, and praise, and love,/Be ever, ever given. It was published in 1740. The seventh verse, which begins, O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing, and which now is invariably the first verse of a shorter hymn recalls the words of Peter Böhler who said, “Had I a thousand tongues I would praise Him with them all.” In the USA, the hymn is commonly sung to Lowell Mason’s 1839 arrangement of the hymn tune Azmon, written by Carl G. Glaser in 1828.
