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[There are lonely hearts to cherish]
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 12333 12111 21231 Used With Text: While the Days Are Going By
[There are lonely hearts to cherish]
While the Days Are Going By
Author: Geo. Cooper Appears in 160 hymnals First Line: There are lonely hearts to cherish Refrain First Line: While going by Used With Tune: [There are lonely hearts to cherish]
While the Days Are Going By
While the Days are Going By
Author: George Cooper Hymnal: The Ark of Praise #21 (1882) First Line: There are lonely hearts to cherish Refrain First Line: While going by, while going by Lyrics: 1 There are lonely hearts to cherish,
While the days are going by;
There are weary souls who perish
While the days are going by.
If a smile we can renew,
As our journey we pursue,
Oh, the good we all may do,
While the days are going by.
Refrain:
While going by,
While going by,
Oh, the good we may be doing,,
While the days are going by.
2 There’s no time for idle scorning,
While the days are going by;
Let your face be like the morning,
While the days are going by.
Oh, the world is full of sighs,
Full of sad and weeping eyes;
Help your fallen brother rise
While the days are going by. [Refrain]
3 All the loving links that bind us,
While the days are going by;
One by one we leave behind us
While the days are going by.
But the seeds of good we sow,
Both in shade and shine will grow,
And will keep our hearts aglow,
While the days are going by. [Refrain] Tune Title: [There are lonely hearts to cherish]
While the Days are Going By
While the Days Are Going By
Author: George Cooper Hymnal: Songs of Triumph #9 (1882) First Line: There are lonely hearts to cherish Refrain First Line: While going by, While going by Languages: English Tune Title: [There are lonely hearts to cherish]
While the Days Are Going By
While the Days are Going By
Author: George Cooper Hymnal: Praise Him #34 (1914) First Line: There are lonely hearts to cherish Languages: English Tune Title: [There are lonely hearts to cherish]
While the Days are Going By
George Cooper
1840 - 1927 Author of "While the Days are Going By" in The Ark of Praise George Cooper, poet, was born in the city of New York, May 14, 1840 son of John and Hepzibah Cooper, He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and afterwards studied law under the late Chester A. Arthur. After practicing for a short time, he renounced his profession to devote himself to the vocation to which his natural gifts inclined him. In his early years, he had developed a taste for writing, and before his sixteenth year had begun to contribute acceptable verses to several leading magazines. Encouraged by the success that met his early productions, he wrote constantly, and became a regular contributor to such periodicals as “The Independent,” “Harpers’ Young People,” and “Harper’s Magazine,” “Atlantic Monthly,” “Putman’s Monthly,” “Our Young Folks,” and “Appleton’s Journal.” Writing constantly for more than a decade, Mr. Cooper has frequently enriched the periodical literature of America by verses of much felicity, and has attracted a wide circle, among his poems are always welcomed with pleasure. His happiest verse has been written for children, and in it lies his chief claim to remembrance. A number of his children’s poems have been published in the collection known as “School and Home Melodies;” and he also issued a volume of hymns consisting exclusively of his own writing and entitled, “The Chaplet.” Among his best-known songs are: “Beautiful Isle of the Sea,” “Must We Then Meet as Strangers,” “Sweet Genevieve,” “While the days Are Going By,” and “God Bless the Little Church Around the Corner.” He has written song words for such composers as Wallace, Abt, Thomas, Millard, and Foster. Of His Other poems, “After,” and “Hereafter” are general favorites; the “Ballad of the Storming of Stony Point” was awarded a prize, and “Learning to Walk” was honored by a commendation from the late William Cullen Bryant. Mr. Cooper was married, in 1877, to Mary E., Daughter of William Tyson, and has since resided at Jersey Heights, where he still employs his leisure in writing.
--http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/only-one-mother-–-a-poem
George Cooper
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Composer of "[There are lonely hearts to cherish]" in The Ark of Praise John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
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John R. Sweney
