Crown Him with Many Crowns Crown Him with Many Crowns Crown Him with Many Crowns is an 1851 hymn with lyrics written by Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring and sung to the tune 'Diademata' by Sir George Job Elvey. The hymn appears in many hymnals. The full twelve verses of the song (which has two-six verse versions, sharing the same melody and theme but different wording and theological points of interest) are as follows (the first six stanzas are those written by Bridges; the second six, written by Thring): <poem> Crown him with many crowns, Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns Awake, my soul, and
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