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549. Out of our failure to create

Text Information
First Line: Out of our failure to create
Title: Out of our failure to create
Author: Fred Kaan, b. 1929
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Scripture: ;
Topic: Hope and Consolation; Suffering and Sorrow
Copyright: © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Tune Information
Name: ST NICHOLAS
Meter: CM
Key: d minor or modal
Source: Later from of a melody from Holdroyd's "The Spiritual Man's Companion" (1753)



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