Person Name: Anon. Author of "Great Author of the world, I bow" in Hymn and Tune Book, for the Church and the Home In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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