“From all who dwell below the skies
Let the Creator's praise arise;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.”

—  Isaac Watts

Psalm 117.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)

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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

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