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[One by one, we're passing over]

Appears in 3 hymnals Incipit: 53565 35223 44523 Used With Text: Passing to the Better Land

Passing to the Better Land

Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: One by one, we're passing over Refrain First Line: Home all other Homes transcending Used With Tune: [One by one, we're passing over]

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Author: Geo. Cooper Hymnal: Gospel Melodies #90 (1884) First Line: One by one, we're passing over Refrain First Line: Home all other homes transcending Languages: English Tune Title: [One by one, we're passing over]

Passing to the Better Land

Hymnal: Millard's Hymns, Songs and Carols #124 (1882) First Line: One by one, we're passing over Refrain First Line: Home all other Homes transcending Languages: English Tune Title: [One by one, we're passing over]

Passing to the Better Land

Hymnal: Millard's Hymns, Songs and Carols #125 (1882) First Line: One by one, we're passing over Refrain First Line: Home all other Homes transcending Languages: English Tune Title: [One by one, we're passing over]

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George Cooper

1840 - 1927 Person Name: Geo. Cooper Author of "Passing To the Better Land" in Gospel Melodies George Cooper, poet, was born in the city of New York, May 14, 1840 son of John and Hepzibah Cooper, He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and afterwards studied law under the late Chester A. Arthur. After practicing for a short time, he renounced his profession to devote himself to the vocation to which his natural gifts inclined him. In his early years, he had developed a taste for writing, and before his sixteenth year had begun to contribute acceptable verses to several leading magazines. Encouraged by the success that met his early productions, he wrote constantly, and became a regular contributor to such periodicals as “The Independent,” “Harpers’ Young People,” and “Harper’s Magazine,” “Atlantic Monthly,” “Putman’s Monthly,” “Our Young Folks,” and “Appleton’s Journal.” Writing constantly for more than a decade, Mr. Cooper has frequently enriched the periodical literature of America by verses of much felicity, and has attracted a wide circle, among his poems are always welcomed with pleasure. His happiest verse has been written for children, and in it lies his chief claim to remembrance. A number of his children’s poems have been published in the collection known as “School and Home Melodies;” and he also issued a volume of hymns consisting exclusively of his own writing and entitled, “The Chaplet.” Among his best-known songs are: “Beautiful Isle of the Sea,” “Must We Then Meet as Strangers,” “Sweet Genevieve,” “While the days Are Going By,” and “God Bless the Little Church Around the Corner.” He has written song words for such composers as Wallace, Abt, Thomas, Millard, and Foster. Of His Other poems, “After,” and “Hereafter” are general favorites; the “Ballad of the Storming of Stony Point” was awarded a prize, and “Learning to Walk” was honored by a commendation from the late William Cullen Bryant. Mr. Cooper was married, in 1877, to Mary E., Daughter of William Tyson, and has since resided at Jersey Heights, where he still employs his leisure in writing. --http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/only-one-mother-–-a-poem