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One bright flower has drooped and faded

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: On the death of a child

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Coles Stebbins, 1846-1945 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 56512 76515 43245 Used With Text: One Bright Flower Has Drooped And Faded

[One bright flower has drooped and faded]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. Westwood Tosh Incipit: 33334 32144 44323 Used With Text: One Bright Flower has Drooped

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One Bright Flower has Drooped

Author: R. C. Waterston Hymnal: A Book of Song and Service #155 (1905) First Line: One bright flower has drooped and faded Topics: Death and Immortality Languages: English Tune Title: [One bright flower has drooped and faded]

One Bright Flower Has Drooped And Faded

Author: Robert C. Waterston Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8477 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 One bright flower has drooped and faded, One sweet youthful voice has fled, One fair brow the grave has shaded, One dear school-mate now is dead. 2 We would feel no pang of sadness, For our friend is happy now; She has knelt in soul-felt gladness Where the blessèd angels bow. 3 She has gone to Heaven before us, But she turns and waves her hand, Pointing to the glories o’er us, In that happy spirit-land. 4 Lord, do Thou keep watch above us, Keep us all from error free; Let Thy Spirit guide and love us, Till, like her, we go to Thee. Languages: English Tune Title: LYDIA

One bright flower has drooped and faded

Hymnal: Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #411 (1875) Topics: On the death of a child

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George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: George Coles Stebbins, 1846-1945 Composer of "LYDIA" in The Cyber Hymnal Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

R. C. Waterston

1812 - 1893 Person Name: Robert C. Waterston Author of "One Bright Flower Has Drooped And Faded" in The Cyber Hymnal Waterston, Robert Cassie, M.A., son of Robert Waterston, was born at Kennebunk, in 1812, but has resided from his infancy at Boston, Massachusetts. He studied Theology at Cambridge; had for five years the charge of a Sunday school for the children of seamen; was associated for several years with the Pitts Street Unitarian Chapel, Boston; and then pastor for seven years of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour in the same city. Much of his time has been given to literature, and a long list of his papers of various kinds is given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1874. He also interested himself largely in educational matters. He contributed one hymn to the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844; to his own popular Supplement to Greenwood's Psalms and Hymns, 1845, and others to various works. Putnam gives 20 poetical pieces in his Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, amongst which are the following, which are in common use at the present time:— 1. In darkest hours I hear a voice. Looking unto Jesus. Contributed to Putnam's Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, and found in a few collections. 2. In each breeze that wanders free. Nature and the Soul. Published before 1853, and again in Putnam, 1874. The hymn "Nature, with eternal youth," in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, No. 185, is composed of stanza iv-vii. of this piece. 3. One sweet [bright] flower has drooped and faded. Death of a Child. Appeared in the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844, No. 668, and again in Putnam, 1874, as “One bright flower, &c." It is in several collections. In the Christian Hymns the heading is "Death of a Pupil;" and Putnam, "On the Death of a Child. Sung by her classmates." In Putnam there are other pieces by him which are worthy of attention. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)