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We Search for Language to Explain

Author: Jeannette M. Lindholm, 1961-

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First Line: We search for language to explain
Title: We Search for Language to Explain
Author: Jeannette M. Lindholm, 1961-
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Copyright: © 1994 Jeannette M. Lindholm

Tune

KINGSFOLD

Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…

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The Covenant Hymnal #445

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