HO'OLA NANI

Author: Anonymous

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Translator: Emerson C. Smith

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Text Information

First Line: Ho'ola nani
Title: HO'OLA NANI
English Title: Fairest Lord Jesus
Author: Anonymous
Translator: Emerson C. Smith
Language: Hawaiian
Publication Date: 1972
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1972.
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Tune

CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)

ST. ELIZABETH appears to be an eighteenth-century tune from the Glaz area of Silesia. It has always been associated with this text. No factual data exists for the legend that this text and tune date back to the twelfth-century crusades, although those apocryphal stories explain one of the names by w…

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Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii #217

Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii #217
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