Look Not on the Wine

Look not on the wine in the cup ruby red

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Look not on the wine]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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: Look not on the wine in the cup ruby red
Title: Look Not on the Wine
Author: John R. Clements
Language: English
Publication Date: 1899
Copyright: Public Domain

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Temperance Day Number 6 #11

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The Sacred Hymnal #192

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