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WHISPERING HOPE

DLS   1-11-03

SEPTIMUS WINNER

5-11-1827 TO 11-22-1902

SEPTIMUS WINNER WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.  HE LIVED THERE HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME AND WAS BURIED THERE.

MANY OF HIS POEMS WERE PUBLISHED AS POEMS, AND MANY OF HIS POEMS BECAME LYRICS FOR WELL-KNOWN HYMNS AND SONGS.  HOWEVER, HIS WORK WAS  KNOWN PUBLICLY UNDER THE PSEUDONYM: ALICE HAWTHORNE.

SEPTIMUS WINNER

AKA ALICE HAWTHORNE WROTE

"WHISPERING HOPE" IN 1868.

DANIEL O'DONNELL AND MARY DUFF RECORDED "WHISPERING HOPE" IN 2001.  BOTH RECORDING ARTISTS

ARE IRELAND BORN AND RAISED.

Soft as the voice of an angel,

Breathing a lesson unheard.

Hope with a gentle persuasion,

Whispers her comforting word:

"Wait till the darkness is over,

Wait till the tempest is done.

Hope for the sunshine tomorrow,

After the shower is gone."

Whispering hope,

Oh how welcome thy voice,

Making my heart,

In its sorrow rejoice.

Whispering hope,

Oh how welcome thy voice,

Making my heart,

In its sorrow rejoice.

If, in the dusk of the twilight,

Dim be the region afar.

Will not the deepening darkness,

Brighten the glimmering star?

Then when the night is upon us,

Why should the heart sink away?

When the dark midnight is over,

Watch for the breaking of day.