Goss: "O taste and see" (Psalm 34)

John Goss spent most of his life in church music, starting as a choir boy in the Chapel Royal, then organist of St. Luke's and finally St. Paul's Cathedral. He wrote over fifty anthems, and this one sets verses 8-10 of Psalm 34. He gives the first part the indication of "verse" and then the rest "full" so I suppose it qualifies as a verse anthem but there is no indication as to how many people should sing the beginning, so I have done it with quartet. His music is about as English as it gets, and his immediate follower at St. Paul's was John Stainer.