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Text:What Will Be Thy Goal?
Author:Eldridge Murphy
Tune:[Sailing on life's heaving ocean wild and wide]
Composer:L. A. Sanderson

23. What Will Be Thy Goal?

Text Information
First Line: Sailing on life's heaving ocean wild and wide
Title: What Will Be Thy Goal?
Author: Eldridge Murphy
Refrain First Line: Drifting, Drifting with the tide
Language: English
Publication Date: 1918
Tune Information
Name: [Sailing on life's heaving ocean wild and wide]
Composer: L. A. Sanderson
Incipit: 54546 53511 15454



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