What mean ye?

What mean ye that ye bruise and bind

Author: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

Follen, Eliza Lee, née Cabot, a well-known Unitarian writer, daughter of Samuel Cabot, born at Boston, August 15, 1787, and married, in 1828, to Professor Charles Follen, who perished on board the "Lexington," which was burnt on Long Island Sound, Jan. 13,1840. Mrs. Follen died at Brookline, Mass., 1860. She was a voluminous writer. Her Poems were first published at Boston (Crosby & Co.), 1839, and whilst she was in England she issued another volume for children's use, entitled The Lark and the Linnet, in 1854. Both volumes also contain some translations from the German, and versions of a few Psalms. Her best known hymns are:— 1. How sweet to be allowed to pray. Resignation. Appeared in the Christian Disciple, Sept., 1818,… Go to person page >

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First Line: What mean ye that ye bruise and bind
Title: What mean ye?
Author: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Freedom's Lyre #77

Hymns and Songs for the Friends of Freedom #d28

Songs of the Free, and Hymns of Christian Freedom #d136

The Church Hymn Book #d1112

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The Psalmody #911

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