Henry Van Dyke was a 19th century American educator, clergyman, and writer. After graduating from the Princeton Theological Seminary he became a professor of literature at Princeton. He later became the U S minister to the Netherlands. While ambassador to the Netherlands he played a major role in helping President Wilson keep the US out of World War I. Van Dyke wrote poetry, essays and hymns. He wrote the words to the hymn Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke was published in 1925 and includes sections on Songs Out of Doors, Narrative Poems, Labour and romance, Hearth and Altar, Epigrams Greetings and Inscriptions, Pro Patria, The Red Flower and Golden Start, In Praise of Poets, Music, and The House of Rimmon

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