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First Line: | Thus heaven is gathering, one by one |
Author: | Edward Henry Bickersteth |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Thus heaven is gathering one by one. E. H. Bickersteth. [Life Eternal .] Published in his Water from the Well Spring, 1852, p. 181, as the end of the Poem The Fear of Death Removed; also in his Two Brothers, ed. 1872, p. 218, entitled, "Death and Victory." It is sometimes given as "So heaven is gathering," &c. This form of the hymn is attributed at p. 544, ii., to F. D. Huntington in error. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)