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[O'er the sea that wildly dashes]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55111 11171 22222 Used With Text: The Harbor Light

Author: Fronia Smith Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: O'er the sea that wildly dashes Refrain First Line: In the harbor, in the harbor Lyrics: 1 O’er the sea that wildly dashes, Soft the harbor-signal flashes, Pointing out the shoals and rocks that threat’ning hide, We are sailors tempest driven, And we seek the port of heaven, And the beacon-light of Calv’ry is our guide. Chorus: In the harbor, in the harbor There the beacon-light is shining far and wide, We are sailors tempest driven, And we seek the port of heaven, And the beacon-light of Calv’ry is our guide. 2 High upon the shore uplifted, Vessels oft have past it drifted, Heeding not its arms of radiance stretching wide, Till the fierce gales drove them helpless On a coast all black and starless, Where no lighthouse lifts its head above the tide. [Chorus] 3 As the years are onward flowing, That fair light is brighter growing, Shining ever with a lustre clear and strong, We will never, never falter, Nor our onward course will alter, Till we anchor in the port we’ve sought so long. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [O'er the sea that wildly dashes]

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The Harbor Light

Author: Fronia Smith Hymnal: Gems and Jewels #10 (1890) First Line: O'er the sea that wildly dashes Refrain First Line: In the harbor, in the harbor Lyrics: 1 O’er the sea that wildly dashes, Soft the harbor-signal flashes, Pointing out the shoals and rocks that threat’ning hide, We are sailors tempest driven, And we seek the port of heaven, And the beacon-light of Calv’ry is our guide. Chorus: In the harbor, in the harbor There the beacon-light is shining far and wide, We are sailors tempest driven, And we seek the port of heaven, And the beacon-light of Calv’ry is our guide. 2 High upon the shore uplifted, Vessels oft have past it drifted, Heeding not its arms of radiance stretching wide, Till the fierce gales drove them helpless On a coast all black and starless, Where no lighthouse lifts its head above the tide. [Chorus] 3 As the years are onward flowing, That fair light is brighter growing, Shining ever with a lustre clear and strong, We will never, never falter, Nor our onward course will alter, Till we anchor in the port we’ve sought so long. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er the sea that wildly dashes]

The Harbor Light

Author: Fronia Smith Hymnal: The Gospel Banner #80 (1904) First Line: O'er the sea that wildly dashes Refrain First Line: In the harbor, in the harbor Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er the sea that wildly dashes]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[O'er the sea that wildly dashes]" in Gems and Jewels James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry