Kind Words--Earth's Good Angels

Kind words, kind words, O, who can tell

Author: L. C. S. Dougherty
Tune: [Kind words, kind words, O, who can tell]
Published in 3 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Kind words, kind words, O, who can tell
The wonders of your magic spell;
Like loving angels, pure and bright,
Ye breathe a message of delight. [Chorus]

Chorus:
Living, dying, kind words be
Earth's good angels, helping me.
Living, dying, kind words be
Earth's good angels, helping me.

2 Kind words, kind words, when hearts are light,
We need you still to keep them bright;
Ye give to every joy a glow,
Like sunlight sparkling on the snow. [Chorus]

3 Kind words, kind words in time of grief,
Ye come with speed to our relief,
And tho' ye may not banish care,
Ye help the stricken heart to bear. [Chorus]

4 Kind words, kind words, so sweet to hear,
O, bless the wide world, far and near;
In spoken thought, or holy song,
Go and redeem the world from wrong. [Chorus]



Source: Kind Words: a new collection of hymns and tunes for sunday schools and the social circle #3

Author: L. C. S. Dougherty

Dougherty, Lucy Simond (Hill). (Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1822--May 21, 1847). Baptist. Educated at home and at Bowdoin school in Boston, as well as pursuing a course of self study in preparation for a teaching career. Accepted a position in 1842 as private teacher on a plantation in Mississippi but did not arrive until 1845. Soon after, she married Captain William D. Dougherty of St. Louis. Wrote numerous hymns many of which were published in newspapers and magazines. Among them are: There are moments, peaceful moments Evening's hallowed minstrelsy There is a land of pleasure They come when fearful thoughts oppress I thank thee, Father, source of bliss However, her most widely used hymn, "When floating on life's troubled se… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Kind words, kind words, O, who can tell
Title: Kind Words--Earth's Good Angels
Author: L. C. S. Dougherty
Refrain First Line: Living, dying, kind words be
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #16287
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  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

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The Cyber Hymnal #16287

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