The First Praise Song

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While shepherds on the hillside kept guard throughout the night

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson (1921)
Tune: [While shepherds on the hillside kept guard throughout the night]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson

Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	While shepherds on the hillside kept guard throughout the night
Title:	The First Praise Song
Author:	Edith Sanford Tillotson (1921)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, heavenly portals opened wide
Publication Date:	1921
Copyright:	Public Domain