When Life is Ended

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When the cares of life are ended, And I lay me down to rest

Author: Ida M. Budd
Tune: [When the cares of life are ended]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Ida M. Budd

Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	When the cares of life are ended, And I lay me down to rest
Title:	When Life is Ended
Author:	Ida M. Budd
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Grant, O Lord, this wondrous gladness
Publication Date:	1898
Copyright:	Public Domain