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Long Live, Long Live America!

Author: Dr. J. E. Rankin Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: America, so proud and free Used With Tune: DIE WACHT AM RHEIN

DIE WACHT AM RHEIN

Appears in 80 hymnals Incipit: 51355 35112 34217 Used With Text: Long Live, Long Live America!

[America, so proud and free]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Pontius Incipit: 51115 11123 21227 Used With Text: Long Live, Long Live America

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Author: J. E. Rankin, D. D. Hymnal: Light and Life Songs #188 (1904) First Line: America, so proud and free Refrain First Line: America, so proud and free Lyrics: 1 America, so proud and free, My song, my heart I give to thee! Full high thy brave, strong wing has won, Thine eagle eye is on the sun; Still upward be thy heav’nward flight, Still upward mount, till lost in light, Still upward mount till lost in light. Chorus: America, so proud and free, My song, my heart I give to thee; Long live, long live America! Long live, long live America! 2 Thou art so sweet in thy repose, The world thy friend, abash’d thy foes; Thou seekest not the battle plain, Thy fields wave with the golden grain; The sheaves which thou dost garner in, Come with the harvest’s merry din, Come with the harvest’s merry din. [Chorus] 3 When Freedom’s cause late waked the land, ‘Twas thine to wield war’s flaming brand; Thy face suffused with God’s own light, Thou rosest to thy full queen’s height; And reaped thy flashing sickle then, Not fields of whet but fields of men, Not fields of whet but fields of men. [Chorus] 4 Truth’s battle fought, truth’s vict’ry won, The manacles from man undone, Thou seemest now some matron fair, Thy vow fulfilled, and heard thy pray’r; Thy children playing round thy knee, Thy song, sweet peace and liberty! Thy song, sweet peace and liberty! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [America, so proud and free]

America, so proud and free

Author: J. E. Rankin, D. D. Hymnal: American Church and Church School Hymnal #324 (1927) Languages: English Tune Title: [America, so proud and free]

Long Live, Long Live America

Author: J. E. Rankin, D. D. Hymnal: Sacred Songs for School Use #99 (1901) First Line: America, so proud and free Refrain First Line: America, so proud and free Languages: English Tune Title: [America, so proud and free]

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Jeremiah Eames Rankin

1828 - 1904 Person Name: Dr. J. E. Rankin Author of "Long Live, Long Live America!" in The White Ribbon Hymnal Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857. Another of his hymns is "Rest, rest, rest, brother rest." He died in 1904. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Rankin, J. 33., p. 951, ii. Dr. Rankin, b. in N. H. (not New Haven), and received his D.D. 1869, LL.D. 1889 from his Alma Mater. He was President for several years of Howard University, Washington, D.C. His publications included several volumes of Sermons, German-English Lyrics, Sacred and Secular, 1897; 2nd ed. 1898, &c. In addition to his hymns noted on p. 951, ii., he has written and published mainly in sheet form many others, the most important and best-known being:— 1. God be with you till we meet again. [Benediction.] Dr. Rankin's account of this hymn, supplied to us, in common with Mr. Brownlie, for his Hymns and H. Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, is: "It was written as a Christian good-bye, and first sung in the First Congregational Church, of which I was minister for fifteen years. We had Gospel meetings on Sunday nights, and our music was intentionally of the popular kind. I wrote the first stanza, and sent it to two gentlemen for music. The music which seemed to me to best suit the words was written by T. G. Tomer, teacher of public schools in New Jersey, at one time on the staff of General 0. 0. Howard. After receiving the music (which was revised by Dr. J. W. Bischoff, the organist of my church), I wrote the other stanzas." The hymn became at once popular, and has been translated into several languages. In America it is in numerous collections; and in Great Britain, in The Church Hymnary, 1898, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, and others. It was left undated by Dr. Rankin, but I.D. Sankey gives it as 1882. 2. Beautiful the little hands. [Little ones for Jesus.] Given without date in Gloria Deo, New York, 1900. Dr. Rankin's translations include versions of German, French, Latin, and Welsh hymns. His contributions to the periodical press have been numerous. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)