Now while we sing our closing psalm

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Now while we sing our closing psalm,
With rev’rent lips and glowing heart,
May peace from out th’eternal calm
Rest on our spirits as we part.
May light, to guard us ev’ry hour,
From Thee, eternal Sun, descend:
And strength from Thee, Almighty Power,
Be with us now, and to the end!

Source: The Praise Book: for Young People's Societies, Church Prayer Meetings and Sunday Schools #48

Author: Samuel Longfellow

Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860. In 1846 he edited, with the Rev. S. Johnson (q. v.), A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1848. In 1859 his Vespers was published, and in 1864 the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit , under the joint editorship of the Rev. S. Johnson and himself. His Life of his brother, the Poet Longfellow, was published in 1886. To the works named he contributed the follow… Go to person page >

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First Line: Now while we sing our closing psalm
Author: Samuel Longfellow
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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