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Isabella Middlemass

Short Name: Isabella Middlemass
Full Name: Middlemass, Isabella

Middlemass, Isabella, is a native of Edinburgh. She has published a set of seven original Hymns for the Little Ones by D. M., n.d. (1892), including “0 see the sky, so blue, so high.” [God's Care.] Written in 1891 to the tune by Mendelssohn, set to it in 1892 as above, and again in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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