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Text:O You Fertile Soil
Author:Toyohiko Kagawa
Translator:Esther Hibbard
Tune:KUROTSUCHI
Composer:Kazu Nakaseko

84. O You Fertile Soil

Text Information
First Line: O you fertile soil
Title: O You Fertile Soil
Author: Toyohiko Kagawa (1953)
Translator: Esther Hibbard (1963)
Refrain First Line: Sunk in deep need
Language: English
Publication Date: 1983
Scripture: ; ; ;
Topic: The Christian Life: Stewardship; God: Grace of God; God: Love of God (3 more...)
Source: Japanese
Copyright: Words used by permission of the Japanese Hymnal Committee and Sumimoto Kagawa
Tune Information
Name: KUROTSUCHI
Composer: Kazu Nakaseko (1963)
Incipit: 35543 45757 15
Key: d minor
Source: Japanese Gagaku mode; Japanese
Copyright: Music ued by permission of Kiyoaku Sumiya



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