When up to nightly skies we gaze

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When up to nightly skies we gaze

Author: John Sterling
Tune: WAREHAM (Knapp)
Published in 9 hymnals

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Author: John Sterling

Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907… Go to person page >

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First Line:	When up to nightly skies we gaze
Author:	John Sterling
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

When up to nightly skies we gaze. John Sterling. [Trust.] In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, this hymn is dated 1810. It is also in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, and others. Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Tune

WAREHAM (Knapp)

William Knapp (b. Wareham, Dorsetshire, England, 1698; d. Poole, Dorsetshire, 1768) composed WAREHAM, so named for his birthplace. A glover by trade, Knapp served as the parish clerk at St. James's Church in Poole (1729-1768) and was organist in both Wareham and Poole. Known in his time as the "coun…

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WALTHAM (Calkin)

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