Spener (continued)

Almost all the leading men of this school occasionally composed hymns, but there were many among them who did not write more than two or three. Franke himself wrote only three hymns, which were all good: the one already named, "What within me and without," and a third, better known in Bogatzky's version, "Awake, thou Spirit, who of old." Spener wrote eleven, from which we choose the following:--