Rise, men of destiny, our troubled planet calls

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Rise, men of destiny, our troubled planet calls

Author: Lois B. Wills
Tune: RUSSIAN HYMN
Published in 2 hymnals

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Author: Lois B. Wills

Wills, Lois Bailey. Born in Scituit, Massachusetts; daughter of Albert Edward Bailey. B.S. from Northwestern University. Housewife and writer of Sturbridge, Mass. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line:	Rise, men of destiny, our troubled planet calls
Author:	Lois B. Wills
Meter:	12.10.12.10
Publication Date:	1958
Copyright:	Copyright 1958 by the Hymn Society of America

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RUSSIAN HYMN

Alexey Feodorovitch Lvov (b. Reval [now Tallin], Estonia, 1799; d. Romanovo, near Kovno [now Kaunas], Lithuania, 1870) composed RUSSIA in 1833 one night "on the spur of the moment," according to his memoirs, after Czar Nicholas I asked him to compose a truly Russian national anthem (rather than cont…

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