The golden sea its mirror spreads

The golden sea its mirror spreads

Author: Samuel Longfellow
Published in 2 hymnals

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: The golden sea its mirror spreads
Author: Samuel Longfellow
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The golden sunset
Copyright: Public Domain

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Songs of Grace and Glory #148

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The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #120

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