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Alone at the Beautiful Gate

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I dreamed that I stood at the portal of heaven Refrain First Line: Alone! alone at the Beautiful Gate!

[I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel W. Beazley Incipit: 53333 33412 33666 Used With Text: Alone at the Beautiful Gate

[I dreamed that I stood at the portal of heav'n]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Fred. H. Byshe Used With Text: Alone at the Beautiful Gate

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Assembly Songs #169 (1910) First Line: I dreamed that I stood at the portal of heav'n Refrain First Line: Alone! Alone! Alone at the Beautiful Gate! Lyrics: 1 I dreamed that I stood at the portal of heav’n, With saints of the ages whom Christ had forgiv’n; But I was alone in the mist of the throng, And something I missed from the heavenly song. Alone! Alone! Alone at the Beautiful Gate! Alone! Alone! Alone at the Beautiful Gate! O pity of pities, O sorrowful fate, To journey alone, alone to the Beautiful Gate! 2 “Why came I alone?” to an angel I said; “All others have dear ones whom here they have led; Have I none who love me, who watch and who wait To enter with me thro’ the Beautiful Gate?” Alone! Alone! Alone at the Beautiful Gate! Alone! Alone! Alone at the Beautiful Gate! O pity of pities, O sorrowful fate, To journey alone, alone to the Beautiful Gate! 3 “Alas!” said the angel, “none saw in thy face The smile of the Master, the heavenly grace; He asked for thyself, but the price was too great, And so thou art lonely at Heaven’s own Gate.” I woke from my dream with a cry in my soul; “O Lord, take my life,—not a part, but the whole; No toil is a burden, no price is too great For one who has dreamed of the Beautiful Gate! Languages: English Tune Title: [I dreamed that I stood at the portal of heav'n]

Alone at the Beautiful Gate

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Songs of Redeeming Love #91 (1915) First Line: I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n Refrain First Line: Alone! alone at the Beautiful Gate! Languages: English Tune Title: [I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n]

Alone at the Beautiful Gate

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Inspiring Hymns #191 (1914) First Line: I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n Refrain First Line: Alone! alone! at the Beautiful Gate! Languages: English Tune Title: [I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Alone at the Beautiful Gate" Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Samuel W. Beazley

1873 - 1944 Composer of "[I dreamed that I stood at the portal of Heav'n]" in Inspiring Hymns Samuel W. Beazley was born in Sparta, Virginia in 1873. He was a music scholar and taught music at Shenandoah College for five years. He composed over 4,000 gospel songs during his lifetime. Samuel W. Beazley maintained a successful publishing business in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Chicago on September 16, 1944. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1992. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.gmahalloffame.org