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The Mountains

Old mountains dim and gray ye rise

Author: Cyrus Augustus Bartol
Published in 2 hymnals


Author: Cyrus Augustus Bartol

The Rev. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, DD, was born in Freeport, Maine, April 30, 1813. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1835. He received the degree of DD from Harvard College in 1859. He preached at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1835-1836, and was a minister-at-large in Boston for a short time. He was ordained at the West Church (Unitarian) Boston on March 1, 1837, as pastor with the Rev. Charles Lowell, DD, and he became the sole pastor in 1861. He retired in 1889 and died in Boston on December 16, 1900. Notes from Andover-Harvard Theological Library… Go to person page >

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First Line: Old mountains dim and gray ye rise
Title: The Mountains
Author: Cyrus Augustus Bartol
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #354

Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #354
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The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #96

The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #96
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