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Love Is the Sunlight

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Author: Borghild Jacobson

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Text Information

First Line: Love is the sunlight
Title: Love Is the Sunlight
Author: Borghild Jacobson
Meter: 5.5.5.4 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1981, Concordia Publishing House
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Tune

BUNESSAN

BUNESSAN is a Gaelic tune that was first published (melody only) in Lachlan Macbean's Songs and Hymns of the Gael (1888) as a setting for Mary Macdonald's carol "Child in the Manger." The tune is named after Macdonald's birthplace on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. BUNESSAN is also well known as the set…

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Timeline

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Instances

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Gather (3rd ed.) #967

Gather (3rd ed.) #967

Gather Comprehensive #866

Gather Comprehensive #866

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #855

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #855

Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #565

Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #565

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #1077

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #1077

RitualSong #946

RitualSong #946
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