Heir Of All The Ages

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1 Heir of all the ages, I—
Heir of all that they have wrought!
All their store of emprise high,
All their wealth of precious thought!

2 Every golden deed of theirs
Sheds its luster on my way;
All their labors, all their prayers,
Sanctify this present day.

3 Heir of all that they have earned
By their passion and their tears;
Heir of all that they have learned
Through the weary, toiling years.

4 Heir of all the faith sublime
On whose wings they soared to Heav’n;
Heir of every hope that Time
To earth’s fainting sons hath giv’n.

5 Aspirations pure and high,
Strength to do and to endure;
Heir of all the ages, I—
Lo, I am no longer poor!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #12996

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Author: Julia C. R. Dorr

Born: February 13, 1825, Charleston, South Carolina. Died: January 18, 1913, Rutland, Vermont, at her home, The Maples. Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Vermont. Pseudonym: Caroline Thomas. Daughter of William Young Ripley, Julia lost her mother as a child. In 1830 her father took her to Vermont, where she was educated. She began writing poetry at an early age, but did not publish anything until two years after her 1847 marriage to Seneca M. Dorr, a prominent New York lawyer and banker. After her marriage, Julia contributed to magazines, mainly poetry, with an occasional short story. She counted amon… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Heir of all the ages, I
Title:	Heir Of All The Ages
Author:	Julia C. R. Dorr
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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HENDON (Malan)

HENDON was composed by Henri A. Cesar Malan (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1787; d. Vandoeuvres, Switzerland, 1864) and included in a series of his own hymn texts and tunes that he began to publish in France in 1823, and which ultimately became his great hymnal Chants de Sion (1841). HENDON is thought to…

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