A City Fair

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A city fair, lies just beyond our vision

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [A city fair, lies just beyond our vision]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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First Line:	A city fair, lies just beyond our vision
Title:	A City Fair
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	We see by faith the mansioned city
Publication Date:	1901
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.