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Marlys Swinger

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Composer of "[Thou art the burning first love]" Marlys Swinger is a published author and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Marlys Swinger include Sing Through the Seasons: 73 Songs for Children, Sing Through the Day: Eighty Songs for Children - with CD, Sing Through the Day. --http://www.jacketflap.com

W. Lawrence Curry

1906 - 1966 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Composer of "[We thank Thee, loving Father] (Curry)"

Frederic Weber

1819 - 1909 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Composer of "PAEAN"

Elisabeth Ehrenborg-Posse

1818 - 1880 Person Name: Elizabeth Ehrenborg-Posse, 1818-1880 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Arranger of "CHRISTMAS DAWN" in The Covenant Hymnal Posse, Catharina Elizabeth Ehrenborg. (Råbäck, Sweden, July 22, 1818--July 22, 1880). Lutheran. Inherited her mother's interest in literature and began writing poetry at an early age. Became active in Sunday School work. Studied at a seminary in England for six months. Upon return to Sweden became director of a teacher training school associated with the deaconess organization. With this closed, she began her own school. Married A.J. Posse in 1856 and assisted him in the publication of a newspaper, Wäktaren (The Watchman). Had a deep interest in the Christian education of children and wrote and translated many hymns and songs for schools. Translated several English songs which appeared under the title Andeliga sånger för barn (Spiritual Songs for Children). Two more editions appeared later. Pilgrims-Sånger included some of her works. Author of "Så älskade Gud värlen all" (For God So Loved the World). Adapter of "När juldags morgon glimmar" (When Christmas Morn Is Breaking). --J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives See also: Elizabeth Ehrenborg-Posse and Katarina E. Posse.

Samuel Greg

1804 - 1876 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Author of "Slowly, Slowly Darkening" in The Cyber Hymnal Greg, Samuel, was born in Manchester, Sept. 6, 1804, and educated by Dr. Lant Carpenter, at Bristol, and at the Edinburgh University. He subsequently became a millowner at Bollington, near Macclesfield. He died, May 14, 1877. The addresses given by him at services which he conducted for his workmen at Bollington were published posthumously as A Layman's Legacy, 1877, with a prefatory note by Dean Stanley. He was also author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, 2nd ed. 1869. Some of his short poems were appended to his Layman's Legacy. He is known to hymnody as the author of:— 1. My soul in death was sleeping. New Life in Christ. Appeared in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, and included in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, No. 400. 2. Slowly, slowly darkening. Old Age. Written in the midst of affliction, Sept. 1868, and published in his Layman's Legacy, 1877, in 11 st. of 4 lines, and entitled "Mystery of Life." In 1884 it was given in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, No. 837. In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, it reads, "Now, slowly, slowly, darkening." It is a hymn of great merit, and is well suited for Private Devotion. 3. Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill. [Transfiguration.] 1st published in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, at the close of a chapter on the Transfiguration. It was reprinted in Macmillan's Magazine, 1870. pp. 543-6, together with Dean Stanley's hymn, "Master, it is good to be," on the same subject. It was included in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, No. "4. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology