The Crown of Peace

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Author: Walter Lyman French

Born: 1871, Macoupin, Illinois. Died: After 1934. Dedication of the Sawin Memorial Building, Dover, Massachusetts, 1908 - ‎Dover (Mass.) The President: The blessing of the God of our fathers will be invoked by the Rev. Walter Lyman French.  Go to person page >

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First Line: To build a world of brutal force
Title: The Crown of Peace
Author: Walter Lyman French
Language: English

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ELLACOMBE

Published in a chapel hymnal for the Duke of Würtemberg (Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1784), ELLACOMBE (the name of a village in Devonshire, England) was first set to the words "Ave Maria, klarer und lichter Morgenstern." During the first half of the nineteenth century various German hymnals altered the…

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