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Text:We saw Thee not when Thou didst come
Author:Kirksby Lonsdale
Re-written by:Rev. John Hampden Gurney (1802-1862)

217. We saw Thee not when Thou didst come

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First Line: We saw Thee not when Thou didst come
Author: Kirksby Lonsdale (1834)
Re-written by: Rev. John Hampden Gurney (1802-1862) (1851)
Publication Date: 1880
Source: "Songs of the Valley", 1834
Notes: Public Domain.
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