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373. Dear Lord, embracing humankind

Text Information
First Line: Dear Lord, embracing humankind
Title: Dear Lord, embracing humankind
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (1872)
Meter: 868866
Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Topic: Confession and Forgiveness
Notes: Text by John Greenleaf Whittier and others
Tune Information
Name: REPTON
Arranger: George Gilbert (1924)
Composer: C. Hubert H. Parry (1888)
Meter: 868866
Key: Eā™­ Major
Source: arranged in George Gilbert's Repton School: Hymns for Use in Chapel; from a song in C. Hubert H. Parry's Judith



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