Katherine Lee Bates - http://hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/a/t/e/bates_kl.htm- Samuel Augustus Ward - http://hymntime.com/tch/bio/w/a/r/d/ward_sa.htm - link here to the source of this porbably secular anthem - http://hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/b/f/s/obfsskis.htm - I have played this both in the UK and USA for American Church Choirs. Its a lovely tune secular or not.