Eternity! Eternity!

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Eternity! Eternity! How long art thou, eternity? Swiftly, to gain thy boundless shore

Author: Daniel Wülfer; Translator: John Henry Hopkins
Tune: [O Ewigkeit, o Ewigkeit] (55511)
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Author: Daniel Wülfer

Theologian; b. 7/3/1617 Nuremberg; d. 5/11/1685 Nuremberg Go to person page >

Translator: John Henry Hopkins

John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Eternity! Eternity! How long art thou, eternity? Swiftly, to gain thy boundless shore
Title:	Eternity! Eternity!
German Title:	O Ewigkeit, o Ewigkeit
Author:	Daniel Wülfer
Translator:	John Henry Hopkins
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain