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ELGOSHAYLE

Meter: 7.8.7.8 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert G. Staples Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 33321 76565 17124 Used With Text: Sown In Tears

Sown in Tears

Author: Fanny Downing Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Chill the air and hard the ground Used With Tune: [Chill the air and hard the ground]

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Sown in Tears

Author: Fanny Downing Hymnal: Fount of Blessing #121 (1880) First Line: Chill the air and hard the ground Languages: English Tune Title: [Chill the air and hard the ground]

Author: Fanny Downing Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9699 Meter: 7.8.7.8 D First Line: Chill the air and hard the ground Lyrics: 1 Chill the air and hard the ground; Not one ray of sunshine lieth; O’er the moor, with hollow sound, Moaning low, the cold wind sigheth. Sower, break the stubborn soil, Lavish in its furrows heaping; Cease not from thy patient toil, Sow the seed and wait the reaping. 2 Summer sunshine on the hill; Birds on every green tree singing; Shouts of joy the soft air fill, Home the harvest they are bringing. And the sower on the plain, His long buried seed now finding, Mellow heaps of ripened grain Into golden sheaves is binding. 3 In the dark and narrow tomb, Costlier seed we bury weeping, And enwrapped in quiet gloom, Leave it to the Master’s keeping. To the end we cannot see, Faith her heav’nly vision blending, We our buried treasure greet, Sown in tears, but reaped in glory. Languages: English Tune Title: ELGOSHAYLE

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R. G. Staples

b. 1833 Person Name: Robert G. Staples Composer of "ELGOSHAYLE" in The Cyber Hymnal Robert Griffin Staples. He was born Robert Griffin on January 24, 1833 in Washington DC. Both of his parents died in a carriage accident when he was an infant; he was then adopted by his mother's sister, Mary Ann King, and her husband, Samuel Johnson Staples and he was given the name Robert Griffin Staples. He was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and after the war was promoted to Major. He then worked as chief clerk in the Portsmouth United States Navy Yard. Religion was an important part of his life, as well as music. He died June 20, 1891 in Portsmouth, VA. Dianne Shapiro, from Jean Brickey (great-granddaughter)