Fanny Crosby

Frances Janes Van Alstyne Crosby (March 24 1820 – February 12 1915), usually known as Fanny Crosby, was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns. A lifelong Methodist, she was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 8,000 despite being blind from shortly after birth.

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• “Give,” said the little stream,
  “Give, oh give, give, oh give,”
  As it hurried down the hill.
  “I am small, I know, but wherever I go
  The fields grow greener still.”
  • ”Give,” said the little Stream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• The New York Institute for Special Education page on Fanny Crosby
• Fanny Crosby page at Cyberhymnal
• Biography at Believers' Web
• National Cyclopedia of Biography article at Wholesome Words