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- 1 2 "Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 618. Jerusalem the golden". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
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{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Trench, Richard Chenevix (1864). Sacred Latin poetry, chiefly lyrical (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
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- ↑ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys, eds. (1997). "Ewing, Alexander (1830-1895)". Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8 . Retrieved 23 May 2016.
