To sum up all, I'm old -- and that's
A fact the years decide;
It is a common thing with cats
And not a thing to hide.
        (FINIS. To the Superior Animal)

1. Father, I Know that all my Life
2. FINIS. To the Superior Animal
3. Tender Mercies, on my Way

Notes on Life and Works

Anna Letitia Waring was born at Plas-y-Velin, Neath, on April 19, 1823. She left her parents' faith, the Society of Friends, for Anglicanism, into which she was baptised on May 15, 1842. Her life-long avocations were the study of the Bible (in self-taught Hebrew), the writing of hymns, a love of animals, and charitable work for prisoners. Her Hymns and Meditations (1850) reached its 17th edition in 1896 and was popularized by the SPCK in the next century. Waring never married. She died in Clifton, Bristol, on May 10, 1910.

• G., A. "Waring, Anna Letitia." Dictionary of National Biography 1901-1911. 593.
• Waring, A. L. Hymns and Meditations. New edn. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911. 04430.a.1 British Library

Biographical information

Given name: Anna Letitia
Family name: Waring
Birth date: 19 April 1823
Death date: 10 May 1910
Nationality: English
Languages
          English
          Hebrew
Religions
          Quaker to 1842
          Anglican: 15 May 1842
Literary period: Victorian
Residences
          Clifton, Bristol, England to 1910
          Plas-y-Velin, Neath: 1823
First RPO edition: 2001