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O worship the King, all glorious above, and gratefully sing His wonderful love; our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.

O tell of His might, and sing of His grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space. His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

 Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air; it shines in the light. It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust and feeble as frail, in Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail. Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end! Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!

All hail to the King! In splendor enthroned; glad praises we bring, Thy wonders make known. Returning victorious, great conqueror of sin, King Jesus, all glorious, our vict’ry will win.

Robert Grant was born to Charles and Jane Grant, in 1779, in Bengal, India. His father Charles, was the chairman of the Directors of the Honorable East India Company. Robert was the third of five children. In 1790, the Grants moved back to England. Robert and his eldest brother were enrolled at Magdalene College in Cambridge, and studied law. Robert was in the top 4 of their class, and both took the bar on the same day, and they both passed. Robert became a Commissioner of Bankruptcy. In 1818, he was elected into Parliament for several different boroughs. On August 11, 1829, Robert married Margaret Davidson, and they had 4 children: Charles Robert, Robert Jr., Sibylla Sophia, and Constance Charemelle. In 1830, Robert began a committee in Parliament and began writing bills; most of them were not passed into law. Two years later, he became a Judge Advocate General for the British Royal Military. In 1834, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay (modern day Mumbai), and his family moved to India. On July 9, 1838, at the age of 59, Robert passed away in Dapodi, India. After his death, his brother found and published several volumes of poems, and hymns, and other sacred works, with the most well-known being, “O Worship the King”, which was based on Psalm 104.