Where is the true man's fatherland

Where is the true man's fatherland

Author: James Russell Lowell
Tune: ST. MARK (Elliott)
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: James Russell Lowell

Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 18… Go to person page >

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First Line: Where is the true man's fatherland
Author: James Russell Lowell
Language: English

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Christian Worship and Praise #d490

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The Fellowship Hymn Book #9

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The Fellowship Hymn Book #9

The New Hymnal of Praise #d395

The Student Hymnary #d401

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