One More Hymn

In the update to the Top Ten List below, I mentioned that one hymn I love, which might seem unusual for an America, William Blake’s “Jerusalem.”

Seems Ronald Reagan loved it, too, and partly to honor America’s lately-eroding “special relationship” to England, and to honor his great friend, Baroness Thatcher, that hymn was played at President Reagan’s Funeral.

Also played at that funeral–as it was, very memorably at the Memorial Service at the National Cathedral, after the attacks of 9/11 (and that video is worth watching for another reason)–was another hymn. I don’t know that I have ever thought it a favorite, but there is something about it…