What Can We Do?

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line: What can we do from day to day
Title: What Can We Do?
Author: Julia H. Johnston
Language: English
Refrain First Line: In little words, in little deeds
Publication Date: 1895
Copyright: Public Domain

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