Across the Silent Midnight

Across the silent midnight, there swept a strain of song

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [O blessed fields of Judah]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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First Line: Across the silent midnight, there swept a strain of song
Title: Across the Silent Midnight
Author: Flora Kirkland
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Glory to God in the highest
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Festival Song Budget, Christmas #UK4

The Universal King #4

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