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He published numerous sermons and articles on religion ; however, he is best known for over 300 hymn tunes he composed.

Among those still in wide use are: Nicaea, commonly sung to the words " Holy, holy, holy!

Lord God Almighty!

"; Wir Pflügen, harmonised by Dykes and commonly sung to the words " We plough the fields, and scatter " ( a translation of the German hymn " Wir pflügen und wir streuen " by the late eighteenth-century German poet Matthias Claudius ); Melita, sung to the words " Eternal Father, Strong to Save " ( sometimes known as " For those in peril on the sea " from its recurring last line ); Gerontius, sung to the words " Praise to the Holiest in the height " ( taken from Cardinal Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius ); O Perfect Love ; and Dominus Regit Me, sung to the words " The King of love my shepherd is ", one of the many metrical versions of Psalm 23.