Let us with a gladsome mind | |
Genre: | Hymn |
Written: | 1623 |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Melody: | "Monkland" by John Bernard Wilkes |
Let us with a gladsome mind is a hymn written in 1623 by John Milton, a pupil at St. Paul's School, at the age of 15 as a paraphrase of Psalm 136. It was set to music as the hymn tune known as Monkland by the organist John Bernard Wilkes using a melody written by John Antes.