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First Line: | Sweet is the last, the parting ray |
Author: | Charles Jenkins |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Sweet is the last, the parting ray. [Saturday Evening.] This hymn is usually attributed to Charles Jenkins, for some years a Congregational Minister in Portland, Maine, but upon insufficient evidence. D. C. Colsworthy, says that it was repeated by Mr. Jenkins in a sermon, and the congregation supposed it to have been his own. No other claimant having appeared it is often attributed to him on this uncertain ground. J. Curtis, in his Union Collection, London, 1827, No. 519, gives it as from the "American Monthly Magazine." [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)