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Lesbia Scott wrote hymns for her three children during the 1920s as expressions of their faith. Never intended for publication, many were written in response to the children's own requests. They would ask, "Mum, make a hymn for a picnic," or "Mum, make a hymn for a foggy day."

"I sing a song of the saints of God" was intended for use on saints' days to reinforce the fact that saints not only lived in the distant past but may also live and work in everyday lives. Mrs. Scott's hymns were first published in England in Everyday Hymns for Little Children, 1929, and in the United States in the Episcopal Hymnal 1940.

Lesbia Lesley Locket was born in Willesden in 1898, and educated at Raven's Croft School in Sussex. She married John Mortimer Scott, a naval officer, who later became an Anglican priest and served a parish near Dartmoor. Active in amateur theatre and religious drama, Mrs. Scott did considerable writing, especially of religious drama. She died in 1986 at Pershore.

-William Reynolds, Kershaw.org.uk/song/about.html.
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