Since what we choose is what we are

Since what we choose is what we are

Author: William De Witt Hyde
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Since what we choose is what we are,
and what we love we yet shall be,
the goal may ever shine afar –
the il to win it makes us free.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #374

Author: William De Witt Hyde

Born: September 23, 1858, Winchendon, Massachusetts. Died: June 29, 1917, Brunswick, Maine. Buried: Pine Grove Cemetery, Brunswick, Maine. Hyde lost both parents an early age, and grew up with relatives in Keene, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Academy in Exeter (1875), Harvard (bachelor’s degree 1879), Union Theological Seminary (1879-80), and Andover Theological Seminary (1882). He was ordained a Congregational minister in 1883, and pastored in Paterson, New Jersey (1883-85), then served as president of Bowdoin College (1885-1917). His works include: Practical Ethics, 1892 Practical Idealism, 1897 God’s Education of Man, 1899 Jesus’ Way, 1902 From Epicurus to Christ, 1904 (reprinted in 1911… Go to person page >

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First Line: Since what we choose is what we are
Author: William De Witt Hyde
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English

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