Hark! O Hear the Birds!

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Children! children! Come with joyous singing

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Children, children]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Children! children!
Come with joyous singing,
Birds out yonder
Carol happy lay.
Be not silent
Come, with gladness bringing
Praise to Jesus,
Loving, grateful praise.

Chorus:
Hark! O hear the birds!
Hark! they need no words!
List their happy praise;
Each his carol raise.
Hark! O hear the birds!
Hark! they need no words!
Join them in their praise today.

2 Think how loving
Is your heav’nly Father!
Think how ceaseless
Is his tender care.
Children! children!
Look up now and praise him
For the love that
Guards you ev’rywhere. [Chorus]

3 Lord, we thank thee
For the glowing summer;
All the blossoms
Show thy bounty free.
Lord, we thank thee;—
Make us truly grateful,
Loving, praising,
Serving only thee. [Chorus]

Source: Inspiring Songs No. 1: for the Sunday school #32

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Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Children! children! Come with joyous singing
Title:	Hark! O Hear the Birds!
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Hark! O hear the birds
Publication Date:	1906
Copyright:	Public Domain