When was the poem "Footprints in the Sand" written and by who?

In January 1980 Mary Stevenson lost her husband Basil in his battle with heart disease and decided it was time for a change of scenery. She moved out of the home she shared with her family for over twenty-five years. During the move she came across a small forgotten valise filled with many of the poems she had written over the years.

Among all this was a lost copy of 'Footprints in the Sand' that she hadn't seen since moving into the house in 1959. She decided to pursue her claim to authorship and later in the year was awarded a copyright for her poem. Eleven years later her 1939 copy of "Footprints in the Sand" was authenticated as genuine by a forensic specialist and said to be approximately fifty-plus years old.

This would pre-date any claims made by others of authorship including Margaret Fishback-Powers who has said to have written it 1964. Sources: http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?p more.

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