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Text:Looking Upward Every Day
Author:Mary Butler
Tune:EXCELSIOR
Composer:Josiah Booth, 1852-1929
Media:MIDI file

4075. Looking Upward Every Day

1. Looking upward every day,
Sunshine on our faces;
Pressing onward every day
Toward the heavenly places;

2. Growing every day in awe,
For Thy name is holy;
Learning every day to love
With a love more lowly;

3. Walking every day more close
To our elder brother;
Growing every day more true
Unto one another;

4. Leaving every day behind
Something which might hinder;
Running swifter every day;
Growing purer, kinder—

5. Lord, so pray we every day:
Hear us in Thy pity,
That we enter in at last
To the holy city.

Text Information
First Line: Looking upward every day
Title: Looking Upward Every Day
Author: Mary Butler
Meter: 76.76
Language: English
Source: Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: ST. KEVIN, Arthur S. Sullivan, 1872
Tune Information
Name: EXCELSIOR
Composer: Josiah Booth, 1852-1929
Meter: 76.76
Incipit: 34571 23371 43234
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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