Lord, a Little Band, and Lowly

DESCRIPTION: "Lord, a little band, and lowly, We are come to sing to Thee...." "Far away, in the realms of beauty, Farther on, to the golden shore... We shall meet to part no more. " For we know the Lord of glory Always sees what children do...."
AUTHOR: Words: Martha Evans Shelly (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (Curwen's Own Hymn Book, according to hymnary.org)
KEYWORDS: religious children nonballad
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 108, "For we know the Lord of Glory" (1 fragment)
Roud #25516
NOTES [37 words]: Hymnary.org shows numerous tunes for this text, none of them representing as much as 20% of the known instances. So we cannot guess which tune Alice Kane used, even though Fowke claims it was also used for "Wingy Wangy." - RBW
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