There are some songs that are so hauntingly beautiful, they come near to bringing tears — and if they are hymns, too, the tears will gleam with longing and even a kind of solemn joy. Our Hymn of the Week is like that. There are only a few words to it, and it’s all the better for that, because the words say everything they can, and much that they canno…
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