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Gurdon Robins

Short Name: Gurdon Robins
Full Name: Robins, Gurdon, 1813-1883
Birth Year: 1813
Death Year: 1883

Robins, Gurdon, an American bookseller, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, Nov. 7, 1813. Two of his hymns appeared anonymously in The Psalmist (Boston, 1843): (1) "There is a land mine eye hath seen" (Heaven); (2) "When thickly beat the storms of life" (God a Rock).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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