Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
"Now the Day is Over"
Hymn of the Week

"Now the Day is Over"

Sabine Baring-Gould

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Oct 31, 2023
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How can I portray for you the author of our Hymn of the Week, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould? He was the sort of polymath and clergyman that England once bore and nourished — a remarkable scholar, folklorist, linguist, archaeologist, amateur poet, novelist, medievalist, architectural restorer, father of fifteen children, and a faithful man of God. Y…

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