Precious Melody

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Author: Avis B. Christiansen

Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and lived in Chicago all her life. She attended the Moody Church, pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, Avis Burgeson married Ernest Christiansen who later became a vice president of Moody Bible Institute. She was a modest and retiring woman, and sometimes used pen names: Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid. She began writing poems in childhood, and before her death in 1985 had written thousands of them. She died in 1985. NN, Hymnary  Go to person page >

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First Line: There's a melody that's so sweet to me
Title: Precious Melody
Author: Avis B. Christiansen
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Precious melody! O, how sweet to me
Publication Date: 1937
Copyright: © 1937 New Spring, admin. by Brentwood-Benson Pub. Co.

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