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The Story of Love

Pretty rose blooming so bright on your spray

Author: Ida M. Budd
Tune: [Pretty rose blooming so bright on your spray]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Ida M. Budd

Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. 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

First Line: Pretty rose blooming so bright on your spray
Title: The Story of Love
Author: Ida M. Budd
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O 'tis love, the love of the Father
Copyright: Public Domain
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Children's Day Songs #d10

Children's Day Songs #d10
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Little Branches No. 3 #12

Little Branches No. 3 #12
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