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Das liebe, alte Buch

In des Herzens tiefstem Schrein lebt ein Bild mir hell und klar

Translator: Elias Roser; Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [There's a picture fair and bright]
Published in 2 hymnals

Translator: Elias Roser

(no biographical information available about Elias Roser.) Go to person page >

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: In des Herzens tiefstem Schrein lebt ein Bild mir hell und klar
Title: Das liebe, alte Buch
English Title: The Old Fireside
Translator: Elias Roser
Author: Julia H. Johnston
Language: German
Refrain First Line: Teures Buch, heil'ges Buch!
Publication Date: 1914
Copyright: Public Domain

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Neue Zions-Lieder #66

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Zions-Klänge #30

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