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[One sweetly solemn thought]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. Edw. Prior Incipit: 32176 65767 2132 Used With Text: One sweetly solemn Thought

One sweetly solemn Thought

Author: Phoebe Cary Appears in 705 hymnals Refrain First Line: Nearer my home, nearer my home Used With Tune: [One sweetly solemn thought]

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One sweetly solemn Thought

Author: Phoebe Cary Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #201 (1889) Refrain First Line: Nearer my home, nearer my home Tune Title: [One sweetly solemn thought]

Author: Phoebe Cary Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #402 (1890) Refrain First Line: Nearer my home, nearer my home Languages: English Tune Title: [One sweetly solemn thought]

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Phoebe Cary

1824 - 1871 Author of "One sweetly solemn Thought" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Phoebe Cary, (1824-1871) was born and raised in Mount Healthy in Hamilton County, Ohio. Her family came from Lyme, New Hampshire to Ohio when her grandfather was given land in return for his service in the Continental Army. She was the younger sister of Alice Cary (1820-1871). She and Alice submitted poetry to religious periodicals. Phoebe remained in Ohio and continued to write many hymns, including, "One sweetly solemn thought." Mary Louise VanDyke =========================================== Cary, Phoebe, sister of Alice Cary, born near Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1824, and died within six months of the death of the same sister at Newport, July 31, 1871. Her works include Poems and Parodies, 1854; and Poems of Faith, Hope and Love, 1868. With Dr. Charles F. Deems she compiled Hymns for all Christians, 1869. Her hymns are:— 1. One sweetly solemn thought. Anticipation of Heaven. This piece was not intended for public use, nor is it a suitable metre for musical treatment, yet it has won universal acceptance and popularity. In some instances this has been attained by change of metre as in the Supplement to the Baptist Psalms & Hymns 1880, No. 1185. Johnson's Encyclopedia is in error in saying it was "written at the age of 17." The Congregational Quarterly for Oct., 1874, says, "it was written, she tells us, in the little back third story bedroom, one Sabbath morning in 1852, on her return from church." This statement shows that it was composed when she was 28, and not 17. The popularity of the hymn in Great Britain arose mainly through its use in the Evangelistic services of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. In the Protestant Episcopal Hymns for Church and Home, Phila., 1860, No. 383, it is given as "A sweetly solemn thought." The following additional pieces by this author are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868:— 2. Go and sow beside all waters. Seed Sowing. 3. Great waves of plenty rolling up. Gratitude. 4. I had drunk, with lips unsated. Living Waters. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Charles Edward Prior

1856 - 1927 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Prior Composer of "[One sweetly solemn thought]" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Charles Edward Prior, 1856-1927 Prior played the piano at the Italian Baptist Mission in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 19th Century. Music-- Go Stand and Speak Work for Us All --hymntime.com/tch