Come, let our hearts and voices join

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Come, let our hearts and voices join

Author: Joseph Swain
Published in 39 hymnals

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Author: Joseph Swain

Swain, Joseph, was born at Birmingham in 1761, and after being apprenticed to an engraver, removed to London. After a time he became a decided Christian, and being of an emotional poetic temperament, began to give expression to his new thoughts and feelings in hymns. In 1783 he was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Rippon, and in 1791 became minister of a Baptist congregation in East Street, Walworth. After a short but popular and very useful ministry, he died April 16, 1796 Swain published the following:— (1) A Collection of Poems on Several Occasions, London, 1781; (2) Redemption, a Poem in five Books, London, 1789; (3) Experimental Essays on Divine Subjects, London, 1791; (4) Walworth Hymns, by J. Swain, Pastor of the Baptist Church Meeting… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Come, let our hearts and voices join
Author:	Joseph Swain
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Come, let our hearts and voices join. This is part of J. Swain's "A Friend there is; your voices join," p. 2, i., given in some American hymnals.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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MILBURN (55556)

DUNDEE (Ravenscroft)

DUNDEE first appeared in the 1615 edition of the Scottish Psalter published in Edinburgh by Andro Hart. Called a "French" tune (thus it also goes by the name of FRENCH), DUNDEE was one of that hymnal's twelve "common tunes"; that is, it was not associated with a specific psalm. In the Psalter Hymnal…

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DOWNS (Mason)

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