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Whatever Be the Love

Hymn on ONE LICENSE

Whatever be the love, it is enfolded

Author: Mary Louise Bringle
ONE LICENSE: 57630
Published in 2 hymnals


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Author: Mary Louise Bringle

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Text Information

First Line: Whatever be the love, it is enfolded
Title: Whatever Be the Love
Author: Mary Louise Bringle
Copyright: © 2006, GIA Publications, Inc.

Tune

O PERFECT LOVE (Barnby)

Joseph Barnby (PHH 438) composed O PERFECT LOVE and said it was a "hymn tune in the natural style and idiom … of our own time." Originally an anthem, O PERFECT LOVE was shortened into a hymn tune for publication in The Hymnal Companion (1890) and in the Church Hymnary (1898). The tune is also know…

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[Whatever be the love, it is enfolded]


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