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Henry Francis Lyte was born on June 1, 1793 in Ednam, United Kingdom
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The Rev. Henry Francis I.yte, M.A,, who has secured worldwide renown as the author of A bide with Me and other famous hymns, was bom at Ednam, near Kelso, in Scotland, of English parentage, on June i, 1793. To the gracious influence of a good and talented mother must be attributed the honour of shaping the character and mind of her son, whose thoughts were ordained to influence and bless the world. Memories of his mother constantly proved a source of inspiration to goodness, and were sacred treasures in his soul to the very last. He wrote a poem entitled On Dreaming of my Mother by which we see how deeply her image was engraven on his souL His father, who was a military officer, descended from an influential family in Somersetshire, It was at Protor Ojin I reland that their famous son received instruction at school, being then nine years of age. At this early stage he acquitted himself with distinction under the tuition of Dean Burrows. Still, it is to be regretted that his early advantages were meagre. His natural abilities, however, were considerable. The difficulties and struggles of his early life created within him a spirit of determination and perseverance, without which he could not have secured the advantages which came to him later, and which carried him triumphantly tln ough adversities which would have daunted most men. Ambitions of the noblest order moved his soul In the poem A spirations we are favoured with a glimpse of his magnificent spirit. At the age of nineteen he proceeded to Trinity College, Dub Un, and from the first became recognized as a distinguished scholar and a popular friend. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series ut
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Henry Francis Lyte was born on June 1, 1793 in Ednam, United Kingdom
He was educated at Enniskillen school and at Trinity College, Dublin.
Lyte took orders in 1815, and for some time held a curacy near Wexford. Owing to infirm health he came to England, and after several changes settled, in 1823, in the parish of Brixham. In 1844 his health finally gave way; and he died at Nice on the 20th of November 1847. Lyte's first work was Tales in Verse illustrative of Several of the Petitions in the Lord's Prayer (1826), which was written at Lymington and was commended by Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosianae.
He next published (1833) a volume of Poems, chiefly Religious, and in 1834 a little collection of psalms and hymns entitled The Spirit of the Psalms. After his death, a volume of Remains with a memoir was published, and the poems contained in this, with those in Poems, chiefly Religious, were afterwards issued in one volume (1868).
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Lyte married Anne Maxwell, daughter of a well-known Scottish-Irish family.
