[To knights in the days of old]

[To knights in the days of old]

Composer: Sallie Hume Douglas (1915)
Published in 26 hymnals


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Composer: Sallie Hume Douglas

Sallie Hume Douglas was something of a hobbyist in song writing. She had published her “Garden of Paradise: Hawaiian Love Song” in 1915, and “Her Pink Mumu” in 1916. Living in Honolulu, Sallie Hume Douglas taught and was active in the League of American Pen Women, the Honolulu Press Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons. She pursued her hobby of genealogy, and wrote more songs: “Ocean of Love,” “Idol of My Heart,” “Deep in My Heart” and “Hawaiian Holiday” among them. “Garden of Paradise” was recorded at least twice, once on the Victor Talking Machine label by Keeaumoku Louis, a famed Hawaiian operatic baritone. Douglas even became the inadverte… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [To knights in the days of old]
Composer: Sallie Hume Douglas (1915)
Incipit: 55456 43333 27521
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Follow the Gleam

To the knights in the days of old,
Keeping watch on the mountain height,
Came a vision of Holy Grail
And a voice through the waiting night:
Follow, follow, follow the gleam;
Banners unfurled o&#;er all the world;
Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Of the chalice that is the Grail.

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Text: Follow the Gleam
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The Cyber Hymnal #1572

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