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How I Wish I Knew

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 17 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue

[Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue]

Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Hymnal Title: Christ in Song Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55555 51332 25555 Used With Text: How I Wish I Knew

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How I wish I knew

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Christ in Song #d322 (1900) Hymnal Title: Christ in Song First Line: Little stars that twinkle

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Christ in Song #253 (1908) Hymnal Title: Christ in Song First Line: Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue Lyrics: 1 Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue, I have often wondered if you ever knew, How there 'rose one like you, leading wise old men From the East, thro' Judah, down to Bethlehem. 2 Did you see the costly presents they had bro't? Did you see the stable they in wonder sought? Did you see the worship tenderly they paid To that stranger baby in the manger laid? 3 Did you hear the mothers pleading thro' their tears For the babes that Herod slew the coming years? Did you see how Joseph, warn'd of God in dreams, Hurried into Egypt guided by your beams? 4 Did you watch the Saviour all those years of strife? Did you know, for sinners, how he gave his life? Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue, All you saw of Jesus how I wish I knew. Topics: Children's Hymns; Children's Hymns Languages: English Tune Title: [Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue]

Little Stars That Twinkle

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls #86 (1952) Hymnal Title: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls First Line: Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue Languages: English Tune Title: [Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue]

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Grace Glenn

Hymnal Title: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls Author of "Little Stars That Twinkle" in Happy Songs for Boys and Girls Pseudonym. See also a href="http://www.hymnary.org/person/Bateman_LM">Bateman, L. M. Beal, Mrs. (Lucinda M.), b. 1843

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls Composer of "[Little stars that twinkle in the heaven's blue]" in Happy Songs for Boys and Girls James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Person Name: Lucinda B. Bateman Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "How I Wish I Knew" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)