Talk:A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Sacred Songs/It is a joyful thing to die

Attribution

The text is attributed to "F." by Formby in the TOC. It is an excerpt from a slightly longer poem, titled "A Story of Heaven", and beginning "Before a Lowland cottage", which is credited to Thomas Rawson Taylor.

The poem beginning

'Before a Lowland cottage
With climbing roses gay'

was composed by the late Rev J. R. Taylor, and is to be found in a small book, entitled Juvenile Tales for Boys and Girls, by E. Ryley and others, and was published at Halifax, by Milner and Sowerby, in 1851—Edith

—The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, vol. II [1]

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:29, 25 April 2016 (UTC)