Hear the Brooklet

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Hear the brooklet as it hastens from its mountain home

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Hear the brooklet as it hastens from its mountain home]
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:	Hear the brooklet as it hastens from its mountain home
Title:	Hear the Brooklet
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Hear the brooklet as it sings
Copyright:	Public Domain