Be True!

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If the cause you have espoused

Author: F. G. Burroughs
Tune: [If the cause you have espoused]
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Author: F. G. Burroughs

Ophelia G. Adams was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) She was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of F. G. Burroughs and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921 Go to person page >

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First Line:	If the cause you have espoused
Title:	Be True!
Author:	F. G. Burroughs
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O be true, be true, we cry
Publication Date:	1888
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1930.