In the Springtime Fair

Author: Lina Sandell, 1832-1903

Caroline W. Sandell Berg (b. Froderyd, Sweden, 1832; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 1903), is better known as Lina Sandell, the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden." "Lina" Wilhelmina Sandell Berg was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor to whom she was very close; she wrote hymns partly to cope with the fact that she witnessed his tragic death by drowning. Many of her 650 hymns were used in the revival services of Carl O. Rosenius, and a number of them gained popularity particularly because of the musical settings written by gospel singer Oskar Ahnfelt. Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish soprano, underwrote the cost of publishing a collection of Ahnfelt's music, Andeliga Sänger (1850), which consisted mainly of Berg's hymn texts. Bert Polman  Go to person page >

Translator: Karl A. Olsson, 1913-

(no biographical information available about Karl A. Olsson, 1913-.) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: In the springtime fair but mortal
Title: In the Springtime Fair
Author: Lina Sandell, 1832-1903
Translator: Karl A. Olsson, 1913-
Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain
Refrain First Line: Open now, before the autumn
Copyright: © 1972, 1996 Covenant Publications

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