Hosmer grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard Un­i­ver­si­ty and Har­vard Di­vin­i­ty School and be­came a Un­i­tar­i­an min­is­ter. He served in North­bo­ro, Mass­a­chus­etts; Quincy, Ill­i­nois; St. Louis, Mis­souri; and Berk­e­ley, Cal­i­fornia. In 1880 and 1911, he helped pro­duce edi­tions of Unity Hymns and Car­ols. He was a rec­og­nized au­thor­i­ty on hymn­o­dy, and taught the sub­ject at Har­vard Di­vin­ity School.

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Hymns

1. Father, to Thee We Look in All Our Sorrow
2. Forward Through the Ages
3. From Age to Age How Grandly Rise
4. From Age to Age They Gather
5. From Ma­ny Ways and Wide Apart
6. Go Not, My Soul, in Search of Him
7. Hear, Hear, O Ye Nations
8. I Cannot Think of Them as Dead
   • We Cannot Think of Them as Dead
9. I Little See
10. Immortal by their Deed and Word
11. Ma­ny Things in Life There Are
12. Not Always on the Mount
13. Not When, with Self Dissatisfied
14. Now While the Day in Trailing Splendor
15. O Beautiful, My Country
16. O Day of Light and Gladness
17. O Light, from Age to Age the Same
18. O Lord of Life, Where’er They Be
19. O Name, All Other Names Above
20. O Prophet Souls of All the Years
21. O Thou, in All Thy Might So Far
22. O Thou in Lonely Vigil Led
23. O Thou Who Art of All That Is
24. O Thou Whose Spirit Witness Bears
25. On Eyes That Watch Through Sorrow’s Night
26. Rose Is Queen Among the Flowers, The
27. Thought of God, The
28. Thy Kingdom Come, O God
29. Thy Kingdom Come, on Bended Knee
30. We Cannot Think of Them as Dead
31. We Pray No More, Made Lowly Wise
32. When Courage Fails, and Faith Burns Low
33. Where Men on Mounts of Vision