O bliv hos mig naar livets kveld er n'r

O bliv hos mig naar livets kveld er n'r

Author: Henry Francis Lyte; Translator: M. Fr. Wiese
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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

Translator: M. Fr. Wiese

Born in Falster, Denmark in 1842, emigrated to American in 1863. Lived first in Racine, Wis. and then moving to Madison. He was a pastor for a Norwegian Lutheran Church in Cambridge, Iowa for awhile before organizing the first Danish Lutheran Church in America in the city of Indianapolis in 1868. Go to person page >

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First Line: O bliv hos mig naar livets kveld er n'r
Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Translator: M. Fr. Wiese
Copyright: Public Domain

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