"No cheers for David, no cheers for Goliath
No cheers when "Good Guys""battle with the "Bad"
We must for peaceful resolutions cheer
So violent victories will disappear.
Joseph Barnby (PHH 438) composed O PERFECT LOVE and said it was a "hymn tune in the natural style and idiom … of our own time." Originally an anthem, O PERFECT LOVE was shortened into a hymn tune for publication in The Hymnal Companion (1890) and in the Church Hymnary (1898). The tune is also know…
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