[Like Noah's weary dove] (Hopkins)

Composer: John H. Hopkins

John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Like Noah's weary dove] (Hopkins)
Composer: John H. Hopkins (1882)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 51117 12522 21233
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Like Noah's Weary Dove

Like Noah's weary dove,
That soar'd the earth around,
But not a resting place above
The cheerless waters found;

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Hymnal #496

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