The New Song

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In the courts of heaven we'll sing a nobler song

Author: William B. Blake
Tune: [In the courts of heaven we'll sing a nobler song]
Published in 7 hymnals

Author: William B. Blake

William Burdine Blake, 1852-1938. William B. Blake, Sr., was born January 21, 1852, in London, Ohio; went to Virginia in the early 1870s and became connected with the music publishing house of the Ruebush-Kieffer Company, and remaining with this firm until 1889, when he moved to Ronceverte. He married Miss Alice Mary Horne, of Augusta county, Virginia, a daughter of Strother P. and Sarah Home. (Strother P. Horne was a Confederate soldier throughout the Civil war.) To this union were born seven children: Charles Stanley Blake, Bessie Mabel, William B,. Jr.. Henry St. John, Robert Russell, Mary Ellen and Edward Lester. At Ronceverte, Mr. Blake, Sr., associated himself in partnership with J. W. Hess in the publication of the Ronceverte News, a… Go to person page >

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First Line:	In the courts of heaven we'll sing a nobler song
Title:	The New Song
Author:	William B. Blake
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	'Twill be "Glory to Christ, our King"
Copyright:	Public Domain