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Alone! to land alone upon that shore

Summary of Frederick William Faber's hymn on death, "Alone! to land alone upon that shore."

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"Alone! to land alone upon that shore" is a hymn on death by Frederick William Faber, published in his Hymns (1862, No. 148) in ten six-line stanzas.

Two distinct altered centos maintaining the original first line entered congregational use: one in the Scottish Ibrox Hymnal (1871, No. 6) and another in the Baptist Hymnal (1879, No. 909).

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