Mormon pioneer John Southwell noted that Elder Cyrus Wheelock wrote “My Native Land Farewell,” a hymn usually called “The Gallant Ship is Under Way.” Most sources, including 19th-century LDS hymnbooks and B. H. Roberts’ History of the Church attribute the poem to William W. Phelps. Others attribute it to Texas pioneer Nathaniel Hunt Greer or English poet Robert Southey.
None of them wrote it.
Here is the story of a hymn that played ...
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