Clara Writer, 1859-1915
A song of growth under God’s daily care.
The lyric is a poetic description of the development of a seed from its first awakening to life under the touch of God’s sunshine, to the tall, fair plant with its golden ear of corn.
No biographical information is at hand concerning the author, Clara Writer.
MUSIC. KING’S LANGLEY. For comments on this tune see [Hymn 385].
407. See the shining dewdrops
Anonymous
No information is at hand concerning the origin of this children’s poem on the theme, “God is good.”
MUSIC. The melody appeared anonymously in Kleiner Liederschatz, a small but useful book of songs for use in German schools and homes. The book was compiled and edited by several Kansas teachers and school friends who preferred to withhold their names. It was first published in 1901, Newton, Kansas.
The arrangement was made especially for the Hymnary, by E. Shippen Barnes, in 1939.