I tried, by putting a couple of the lines of the hymn Jennie quotes into Google, to learn who the author was. It begins to appear in the mid-19th century and was collected into Darbyite collections of hymns. Jennie's Plymouth Brethren upbringing might have been where she learned it. In an Anglican collection, there is a first stanza before the one that Jennie begins with. It reads:
Give to the winds thy fears; hope and be undismayed.
God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears; God shall lift up thy head.
"A Hymnal for use in the English Church. Compiled by Francis H. Murray"
Now, notice that Jennie is signing her letter "with love" .
But they weren't able to marry for several more years.
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