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[O had I wings like a dove, I would fly]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Jefferys Incipit: 55432 11765 55513 Used With Text: O had I wings like a Dove

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O had I wings like a Dove

Author: C. J. Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: O had I wings like a dove, I would fly Used With Tune: [O had I wings like a dove, I would fly]

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Oh! had I wings, like a Dove

Author: Mary S. B. Dana Hymnal: The Male Chorus No. 1 #118 (1888) First Line: Oh! had I wings, like a dove, I would fly Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh! had I wings, like a dove, I would fly]
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O had I wings like a Dove

Author: C. J. Hymnal: Select Songs No. 2 #24 (1893) First Line: O had I wings like a dove, I would fly Languages: English Tune Title: [O had I wings like a dove, I would fly]
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Words of Promise

Author: Charles Jeffreys; Asa Hull Hymnal: Sunday School Anthem and Chorus Book #85 (1901) First Line: O! had I wings like a dove, I would fly Languages: English Tune Title: [O! had I wings like a dove, I would fly]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Arranger of "Words of Promise" in Sunday School Anthem and Chorus Book Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

Mary Dana Shindler

1810 - 1883 Person Name: Mary S. B. Dana Author of "Oh! had I wings, like a Dove" in The Male Chorus No. 1 Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce, née Palmer, better known as Mrs. Dana, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Feb. 15, 1810. In 1835 she was married to Charles E. Dana, of New York, and removed with him to Bloomington, now Muscatine, Iowa, in 1838. Mr. Dana died in 1839, and Mrs. Dana returned to South Carolina. Subsequently she was married to the Rev. Robert D. Shindler, who was Professor in Shelby College, Kentucky, in 1851, and afterwards in Texas. Mrs. Shindler, originally a Presbyterian, was for some time an Unitarian; but of late years she has been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. As Mary S. B. Dana she published the Southern Harp, 1840, and the Northern Harp, 1841. From these works her hymns have been taken, 8 of which are in T. O. Summers's Songs of Zion, 1851. The best known are:— 1. Fiercely came the tempest sweeping. Christ stilling the storm. (1841.) 2. I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger. A Christian Pilgrim. (1841.) 3. O sing to me of heaven. Heaven contemplated. (1840.) Sometimes given as "Come, sing to me of heaven." [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Shindler, Mary S. B., p. 1055, i. Other hymns usually attributed to this writer, are "Prince of Peace, control my will" (Perfect Peace), in the Church of England Magazine, March 3, 1858, in 32 lines; and " Once upon the heaving ocean" (Jesus calming the Sea). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Charles Jeffreys

Person Name: Charles Jefferys Author of "Words of Promise" in Gospel Praise Book.
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