Drifting With the Tide

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Brightly gleams the radiant banners Of the sunlight on the sea

Author: Ida M. Budd
Tune: [Brightly gleams the radiant banners]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Ida M. Budd

Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Brightly gleams the radiant banners Of the sunlight on the sea
Title:	Drifting With the Tide
Author:	Ida M. Budd
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Drifting, only drifting, on the ocean wild and wide
Copyright:	Public Domain