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Text:When on my day of life the night is falling
Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
Tune:DIADEMA
Composer:Sir Joseph Barnby

671b. When on my day of life the night is falling

Text Information
First Line: When on my day of life the night is falling
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (1882)
Meter: 11 10. 11 6.
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Hymns Chiefly for Personal Use; Burial of the Dead
Tune Information
Name: DIADEMA
Composer: Sir Joseph Barnby (1883)
Meter: 11 10. 11 6.
Key: D Major
Copyright: By permission of Novello & Co., Ltd.
Notes: Now Public Domain



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