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I was once a weary pilgrim sore distressed

Author: Lavinia E. Brauff
Tune: [I was once a weary pilgrim sore distressed]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Lavinia E. Brauff

Lavinia E. Brauff was born in Pittsburgh 12 October, 1851. She was blind from infnacy. She was educated at the School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Her first hymn was published in 1894 to the music of H. P. Danks. 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:	I was once a weary pilgrim sore distressed
Title:	Come and Rest
Author:	Lavinia E. Brauff
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O some day the song I'll sing
Copyright:	Public Domain