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Author: Donald P. Owens II
Donald Paul Owens II (USA) learned to love poetry from his mother. His poems are found in Good Work Magazine, Cantus Christi 2020, A Treasury of Psalms and Hymns, and other collections. Donald has pursued many vocations including cabinetmaker, excavator, and pastor, always with a notebook in his pocket. He has attended Lancaster Bible College and Word of Life Bible Institute, and is currently a poetry student at Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in the forests of Pennsylvania with his wife, children, and a leopard gecko named Pickles.
-written by subject, collected by Michael E. Owens and posted with subject's permission.
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LANCASHIRE (Smart)Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…
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