Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour
Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine
Rescue the Perishing
My Saviour First of All
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus our Blessed Redeemer
Tell Me the Story of Jesus
All the Way My Saviour Leads Me
He Hideth My Soul
Jesus Is Tenderly Calling
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
I Am Thine, O Lord
Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It
Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet
To God Be the Glory

These are just a few of the thousands of hymns she wrote in her lifetime. She was accidentally blinded by an incompetent doctor when she was only six weeks old. When she was a year old, her father died. Her grandmother read the Bible to her as she grew older, and she knew the Pentateuch, the Gospels, Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, and many of the psalms by heart. When she grew up, she was first a teacher of the blind and then a hymn writer. Sometimes she would write six or seven hymns in one day, but she said she always prayed for guidance from the Holy Spirit before writing a hymn. She knew Presidents Van Buren and Polk, but she and one US president were close friends. On the occasion of her eighty-fifth birthday in 1905, he wrote her this letter:

My dear friend:

It is more than fifty years ago that our acquaintance and friendship began; and ever since that time I have watched your continuous and disinterested labor in uplifting humanity, and pointing out the way to an appreciation of God’s goodness and mercy�. As one proud to call you an old friend, I desire to be early in congratulating you on your long life of usefulness, and wishing you in the years yet to be added to you, the peace and comfort born of the love of God.

Yours very sincerely,

Grover Cleveland

She died at the age of 95, still serving her Saviour by writing hymns and praising Him. I found this hymn at CyberHymnal (along with 296 others).

How sweetly o’er the mountain of Zion, lovely, Zion,
The anthem of ages comes sweeping along;
The anthem of the faithful, we hear, and, rejoicing,
Our hearts in glad measure keep tune with the song.

Refrain:
O the Lion of Judah hath triumphed forever,
O the Lion of Judah is mighty and strong.

O happy, happy tidings, the kingdom now is opened,
The seals are all broken; proclaim it afar;
From bondage and oppression by Him we are delivered,
The Lion of Judah, the bright Morning Star.

Hosanna in the highest, all glory everlasting,
The cross and its banner triumphant shall wave;
Hosanna in the highest, all glory everlasting,
The Lion of Judah His people will save.

And here is an encouraging sermon based on the life of Fanny Crosby.