quote · Legacy record
Ah! the weariness and weight of tears, The crying out to God, the wish for slumber, They lay so deep, so deep! God heard them all; He set them unto music of his own.
Ah! the weariness and weight of tears, The crying out to God, the wish for slumber, They lay so deep, so deep! God heard them all; He set them unto music of his own.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Author or tradition
- R. Buchanan (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 294 · printed citation: R. Buchanan, 1866 (Bexhill). · compiler notes excluded
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