Hvad skal hosten blive

Sa'nde S'den ved Morgenroed

Author: Emily S. Oakey
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Emily S. Oakey

A graduate of Albany Female Academy in New York. Taught rhetoric, composition, and foreign languages there for 24 (or 25) years. Contributed to at least 11 magazines. Published a book of poetry, At the Foot of Parnassus.. Wrote the hymn, “Sowing the Seed” in 1850. Originally published in “a western paper,” altered as it traveled from hand to hand. Popularized by Ira Sankey. Published in Gospel Hymns and Songs. Frequently requested from Edison Records, and recorded by them in 1904. According to Sankey, she was “a frail, delicate woman, always an invalid,mnever having known, as she once said, an hour of health in all her life.” E. Adams Sources: Sankey, Ira D. My Life and Sacred Songs (1906), 138-143, 281-284. Moore, Wendell… Go to person page >

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First Line: Sa'nde S'den ved Morgenroed
Title: Hvad skal hosten blive
Author: Emily S. Oakey
Refrain First Line: Sa't her i skyggerne eller i pragt
Copyright: Public Domain

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