Triste e Sombrio Foi Meu Viver

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Triste e sombrio foi meu viver, longe de ti

Author: William T. Sleeper (1887); Translator: Solomon L. Ginsburg (1897)
Tune: JESUS, I COME (Stebbins)
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: William T. Sleeper

Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Translator: Solomon L. Ginsburg

Born in Poland in 1867, Ginsburg was a Baptist pastor and missionary to Brazil for thirty-five years. He wrote A Wandering Jew in Brazil: An Autobiography. Go to person page >

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First Line:	Triste e sombrio foi meu viver, longe de ti
Title:	Triste e Sombrio Foi Meu Viver
English Title:	Out of My Bondage, Sorrow, and Night
Translator:	Solomon L. Ginsburg (1897)
Author:	William T. Sleeper (1887)
Language:	Portuguese
Publication Date:	1991
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1991.