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Blossoms Lift Their Sunny Faces

Author: Geo. O. Webster Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: Is it so with you? Lyrics: 1 Blossoms lift their sunny faces To the light, Even in the shaded places Smiling bright; If the skies be dark and drear, Or if skies be blue, Just as smiling they appear; Is it so with you? Refrain: Is it so with you? Is it so with you? Can you, on a darksome day, Smile the heavy hours away? Flowers can and do; Is it so with you? 2 Flowers give their fragrant greeting Ev’rywhere, All the breezes in their meeting Give a share; If the breeze be soft and warm, Parched or moist with dew, Or the token of a storm, Is it so with you? [Refrain] 3 Songbirds lift their voice in gladness All day long, Giving joy in place of sadness By their song; When the sunset hour is near, When the day is new, Singing out a note of cheer, Is it so with you? [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Blossoms lift their sunny faces]

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[Blossoms lift their sunny faces]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 17121 76535 51712 Used With Text: Blossoms Lift Their Sunny Faces

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Blossoms Lift Their Sunny Faces

Author: Geo. O. Webster Hymnal: Hymns for Today #303 (1920) Refrain First Line: Is it so with you? Lyrics: 1 Blossoms lift their sunny faces To the light, Even in the shaded places Smiling bright; If the skies be dark and drear, Or if skies be blue, Just as smiling they appear; Is it so with you? Refrain: Is it so with you? Is it so with you? Can you, on a darksome day, Smile the heavy hours away? Flowers can and do; Is it so with you? 2 Flowers give their fragrant greeting Ev’rywhere, All the breezes in their meeting Give a share; If the breeze be soft and warm, Parched or moist with dew, Or the token of a storm, Is it so with you? [Refrain] 3 Songbirds lift their voice in gladness All day long, Giving joy in place of sadness By their song; When the sunset hour is near, When the day is new, Singing out a note of cheer, Is it so with you? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Blossoms lift their sunny faces]

Is it so with you

Author: George O. Webster Hymnal: Songs of Cheer #d1 (1918) First Line: Blossoms lift their sunny faces to the light Languages: English

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Blossoms lift their sunny faces]" in Hymns for Today James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry