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CYRUS (Towner)

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 55311 21765 11

Author: Julia H. Johnston Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: The waking flow’rs, the singing birds Refrain First Line: Sing praises to the loving Lord Lyrics: 1 The waking flow’rs, the singing birds, Proclaim the joyous spring; The very air is full of praise, Let happy children sing. Refrain: Sing praises to the loving Lord, Who lives in light on high, For all the tokens of the spring, In earth, and air and sky. 2 The rippling laughter of the brook, The blossom-laden trees, The nodding blades of tender grass, Their great Creator please. [Refrain] 3 The sower scatters precious grain For reaping by and by; Life’s springtime is its sowing time, A sower, too, am I. [Refrain] Used With Tune: CYRUS Text Sources: Bible Study Songs, by Bertha F. Vella and Daniel. B. Towner (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1899)

Instances

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Spring

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8110 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: The waking flow’rs, the singing birds Refrain First Line: Sing praises to the loving Lord Lyrics: 1 The waking flow’rs, the singing birds, Proclaim the joyous spring; The very air is full of praise, Let happy children sing. Refrain: Sing praises to the loving Lord, Who lives in light on high, For all the tokens of the spring, In earth, and air and sky. 2 The rippling laughter of the brook, The blossom-laden trees, The nodding blades of tender grass, Their great Creator please. [Refrain] 3 The sower scatters precious grain For reaping by and by; Life’s springtime is its sowing time, A sower, too, am I. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: CYRUS

Spring

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Bible Study Songs #130 (1899) First Line: The waking flow'rs, the singing birds Refrain First Line: Sing praises to the loving Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [The waking flow'rs, the singing birds]

People

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Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Author of "Spring" in The Cyber Hymnal Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "CYRUS (Towner)" Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives