Dorothy Frances Gurney Quotes

Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney was an English hymn-writer and poet.Gurney was the granddaughter of Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London from 1828 to 1856; niece to the architect Sir Arthur Blomfield and Alfred Blomfield, Bishop of Colchester from 1882 to 1894; and cousin of the geologist Francis Arthur Bather. The daughter of Frederick Blomfield, Rector of St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London, she married Gerald Gurney in 1897. In 1904 her husband was ordained an Anglican priest, but they both joined the Roman Catholic church in 1919. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1858 – 15. June 1932
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Dorothy Frances Gurney Quotes

“The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on Earth.”

"God's Garden" lines 13–16, Poems, by Dorothy Frances Gurney (London: Country Life, 1913).

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