Author—Isaac Watts, 1674–1748, with alterations by others Music—From Gesangbuch der Herzogl, Württemberg, 1784 Tune Name—“Ellacombe” Meter—CMD (86.86 Doubled) He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the rivers unto the ends of the earth. Psalm 72:8 Isaac Watts, the father of English hymnody, was frail in health during much of his life. For the last thirty years of his life he was more or less an invalid at the home of his friend, Sir Thomas Abney, where