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Text:As helpless as a child who clings
Author:The Rev. James Drummond Burns, M. A. (1823-1864)
Tune:FATHERHOOD
Composer:John Baptiste Calkin, 1827-1905

153. As helpless as a child who clings

Text Information
First Line: As helpless as a child who clings
Author: The Rev. James Drummond Burns, M. A. (1823-1864) (1856)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1895
Tune Information
Name: FATHERHOOD
Composer: John Baptiste Calkin, 1827-1905
Meter: C.M.D.



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