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Summer Sun

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Summer Sun

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[Great is the sun, and wide he goes]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Grace Wilbur Conant Incipit: 15563 45556 71512 Used With Text: Summer Sun
[Great is the sun, and wide he goes]

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Summer Sun

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Hymnal: Song and Play for Children #72 (1925) First Line: Great is the sun, and wide he goes Languages: English Tune Title: [Great is the sun, and wide he goes]
Summer Sun

Great is the sun, and wide he goes

Author: R. L. Stevenson Hymnal: We Sing of Life #d26 (1955)
Great is the sun, and wide he goes

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Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "[Great is the sun, and wide he goes]" in Song and Play for Children Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1858, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: Ap­ril 7, 1948, Malden, Mass­a­chu­setts. Grace re­mained sin­gle all her life. Her mid­dle name was her mo­ther’s maid­en name. She served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Kin­der­gar­ten Review for at least six years, star­ting in 1908. Her works in­clude: Songs for Lit­tle Peo­ple, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­i­el­son (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Ben­ja­min S. Win­ches­ter (Pilg­rim Press, 1913) Religious Dan­gers of Mo­dern Ten­den­cies in So-Called Re­li­gious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Child­ren, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­iel­son (Pil­grim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal
Grace Wilbur Conant

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894 Author of "Summer Sun"
Robert Louis Stevenson