SICILIAN MARINERS' HYMN, THE. A melody which, fifty years ago, was in great request as a hymn-tune, chiefly in Nonconformist chapels in England. We give the first two strains.
It appears as ‘Sicilian Mariners
’ in Miller's ‘Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns set to new music,
’ which was entered at Stationers' Hall Oct. 18, 1800; but it exists on a sheet, also containing ‘Adeste Fideles,
’ which was probably published some years before the close of last century...