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O Thou in whom we live and move, Whose love in law, whose law is love

Author: Samuel Longfellow

Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860. In 1846 he edited, with the Rev. S. Johnson (q. v.), A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1848. In 1859 his Vespers was published, and in 1864 the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit , under the joint editorship of the Rev. S. Johnson and himself. His Life of his brother, the Poet Longfellow, was published in 1886. To the works named he contributed the follow… Go to person page >

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First Line: O Thou in whom we live and move, Whose love in law, whose law is love
Author: Samuel Longfellow (1864)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

ROCKINGHAM (Miller)

According to Chris Fenner of Hymnology Archive, Edward Miller arranged a hymn tune "which first appeared under the name TUNBRIDGE in Musica Sacra: Being a choice collection of psalm and hymn tunes...as they are used in the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapels, in Bath, Bristol, &c.…

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