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Over the hills the rays of morning

Author: Annie Lewis Pinfold
Tune: [Christian, rouse thee! war is raging]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Annie Lewis Pinfold

Annie L. Pinfold was born in Windsor, England in 1870. She later lived in a small town near the border of Maine and New Hampshire.She started writing short stories for Sunday school publications but then started writing hymns. 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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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Over the hills the rays of morning
Title:	On to Victory
Author:	Annie Lewis Pinfold
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Comrades, falter never
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

[Christian, rouse thee! war is raging]

The first four lines of this tune constitute the Common Metre hymn tune HARLECH; a transcription of the melody and the most commonly found English lyrics of the martial folk tune are given in the Digital Tradition: MEN OF HARLECH (a Welsh text and translation are here).

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