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Text:Before the day draws near its ending
Author:Rev. John Ellerton
Tune:LES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU
Composer or arranger:Louis Bourgeois

26. Before the day draws near its ending

Text Information
First Line: Before the day draws near its ending
Author: Rev. John Ellerton (1880)
Meter: 9 8. 9 8.
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Evening
Notes: Alternative tune, ST. CLEMENT, No. 27.
Tune Information
Name: LES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU
Composer or arranger: Louis Bourgeois
Meter: 9 8. 9 8.
Key: G Major
Source: Genevan Psalter, 1543.
Copyright: By permission of the Oxford University Press
Notes: Now Public Domain



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