Contentment

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander

As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies. She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandment… Go to person page >

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First Line: Saw ye never in the meadows
Title: Contentment
Author: Cecil Frances Alexander
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Saw ye never in the meadows. Cecil F. Alexander. [Divine Providence.] Published in her Hymns for Little Children, 1848, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines. "Day by day the little daisy," in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, begins with stanza vi. of this hymn.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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A New Hymnal for Sunday Schools #93

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The New Children's Hymnal #291

Hymns and Music for the Young. Juvenile series, Pt.II. 5th ed. #d22

Hymns and Poetry for the Young #d102

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Hymns for Little Children #30

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Hymns for Little Children #30

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