Descanso en ti

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Descanso en ti, mi defensor y escudo

Author: Edith Cherry; Translator: Estela Sharpin
Tune: FINLANDIA
Published in 5 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Choral
	This Is My Song - Guitar part

Handbells
	Finlandia - Handbell Part

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Author: Edith Cherry

Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry United Kingdom 1872-1897. Born at Plymouth, Devon, she was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6, devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15. She had friends who helped her supporting Sunday school work and the YWCA. She was a gifted illustrator of cards and porcelain which she neatly embellished with flower or fern sprays and Bible texts. Of her verse, she said, they were given to me and all I had to do was write them down. Some of her poems appeared in print in the periodical “The Christian”. She had two strokes in early life, and a 3rd, at age 25, took he… Go to person page >

Translator: Estela Sharpin

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First Line:	Descanso en ti, mi defensor y escudo
Title:	Descanso en ti
English Title:	We Rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender
Author:	Edith Cherry
Translator:	Estela Sharpin
Meter:	11.10.11.10.11.10
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Tr. © 1969 Ediciones Certeza

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Tune

FINLANDIA

In 1899 Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. Hameenlina, Tavastehus, Finland, 1865; Jarvenpaa, near Helsingfors, Finland, 1957) wrote a musical score for six historical tableaux in a pageant that celebrated and supported the Finnish press against Russian oppression. In 1900 Sibelius revised the music…

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