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We Sing of Life

Publication Date: 1955 Publisher: Beacon Press Publication Place: Boston, Mass. Editors: Vincent Silliman; Beacon Press; Irving Lowens

It came upon the [a] midnight clear

Author: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876; Edmund Hamilton Sears Appears in 878 hymnals

Heir of all the ages, I

Author: Julia C. R. Dorr Appears in 12 hymnals

I walk the unfrequented road

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Appears in 3 hymnals

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Sing Noel

Hymnal: WSoL1955 #d1 (1955) First Line: A day of joyful singing

A fierce unrest seethes

Author: D. Marquis Hymnal: WSoL1955 #d2 (1955)

A little bit of blowing

Author: C. S. Bailey Hymnal: WSoL1955 #d3 (1955)

Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

1809 - 1892 Person Name: Alfred Tennyson Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky" in We Sing of Life Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, son of the Rev. G. C. Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, was born at Somersby, Aug. 6, 1809; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; appointed Poet Laureate in 1850, and raised to the Peerage in 1884. Although Lord Tennyson has not written any hymns, extracts from his poems are sometimes used as such, as "Strong Son of God, immortal Love" (Faith in the Son of God), from the Introduction to his In Memoriam, 1850; the well-known "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now," and others. The former is sometimes given as "Spirit of immortal Love," and again as "Eternal God, immortal Love." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Percy Dearmer

1867 - 1936 Hymnal Number: d48 Author of "Little Jesus sweetly sleep" in We Sing of Life Dearmer, Percy, M.A., son of Thomas Dearmer, was born in London, Feb. 27, 1867, and educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1890, M.A. 1896). He was ordained D. 1891, P. 1892, and has been since 1901 Vicar of S. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London. He has been Secretary of the London Branch of the Christian Social Union since 1891, and is the author of The Parson's Handbook, 1st edition, 1899, and other works. He was one of the compilers of the English Hymnal, 1906, acting as Secretary and Editor, and contributed to it ten translations (38, 95, 150, 160, 165, 180, 215, 237, 352, 628) and portions of two others (242, 329), with the following originals:— 1. A brighter dawn is breaking. Easter. Suggested by the Aurora lucis, p. 95, but practically original. 2. Father, Who on man dost shower. Temperance. 3. God, we thank Thee, not in vain. Burial. 4. Holy God, we offer here. Holy Communion. 5. Jesu, good above all other. For Children. 6. Lord, the wind and sea obey Thee. For those at Sea. 7. The winter's sleep was long and deep. St. Philip and St. James. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James Russell Lowell

1819 - 1891 Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "Men whose boast it is, that ye" in We Sing of Life Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Part of this is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N.Y., 1865, as "They are slaves who will not choose.” [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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