1807 - 1877 Person Name: Mrs. Miles Author of "When, on devotion's seraph wing" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) Miles, Elizabeth, nee Appleton, was born at Boston, U.S.A,, March 28, 1807, and married in 1833 to Solomon P. Miles, Head Master of the Boston High School, and afterwards the Principal of a private school for young ladies in the same city. He died in 1842. On leaving Boston, Mrs. Miles went to reside with her son at Brattleborough, Vermont. Her principal hymns are:—
1. The earth all light and loveliness. Part i. Summer.
2. When on devotion's seraph wing. Part ii., st. v., vii. Foretaste of Heaven. These two parts appeared as one hymn in The Christian Examiner, 1828.
3. Thou Who didst stoop below. Looking unto Jesus. Appeared in The Christian Examiner, 1827. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "It was no path of flowers," as in the Boston Unitarian Book of Hymns, 1846.
4. Father, direct my ways. Divine Guidance desired in Affliction. In the Boston Book of Hymns, 1846; the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864; and some other collections, it begins with st. ii., "Thou, infinite in love."
Three additional hymns were published for the first time in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1875. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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