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A form not always dark, but ever dread

A form not always dark, but ever dread

Author: Charlotte F. Bates
Published in 1 hymnal


Author: Charlotte F. Bates

Charlotte Fiske Bates (Mme. Rogé). An American writer, born in New York City. She has published a volume of verse under the title Risk, and other Poems (1879), has contributed many articles to magazines and edited other books of poetry. From The New International Encylopaedia (Vol II) by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thruston Peck, and Frank Moor Colby, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905  Go to person page >

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First Line: A form not always dark, but ever dread
Author: Charlotte F. Bates
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #297

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