All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Cecil Frances Alexander Quotes
Once in royal David’s city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.
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| Birth: | 1818 |
| Death: | 12th October, 1895 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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Cecil Frances Alexander was born in Dublin, Ireland. She was a Irish poet and writer. By the 1840s she was already known as a hymn writer and her compositions were soon included in Church of Ireland hymnbooks. She also contributed lyric poems, narrative poems, and translations of French poetry to Dublin University Magazine under various pseudonyms. Her book, Hymns for Little Children reached its 69th edition before the close of the nineteenth century. She issued Verses for Holy Seasons; The Lord of the Forest and His Vassals; and Hymns for Little Children.
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