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Text:How Can We Name a Love
Author:Brian Wren
Tune:TERRA BEATA
Adapter:Franklin L. Sheppard

409. How Can We Name a Love

Text Information
First Line: How can we name a love
Title: How Can We Name a Love
Author: Brian Wren (1973)
Meter: SMD
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Copyright: © 1975 Hope Publishing Co.
Tune Information
Name: TERRA BEATA
Adapter: Franklin L. Sheppard (1915)
Meter: SMD
Key: D Major
Source: Traditional English melody


Text Information:

Brian Wren is a hymnodist from the United Reformed Church, a union of Congregationalists and Presbyterians in England. He now resides in the United States


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