The Beacon Song and Service book ‎#122

122. All the past we leave behind

Text Information

• First Line: All the past we leave behind
• Title: All the past we leave behind
• Author: Walt Whitman (1865)
• Refrain First Line: Pioneers, O pioneers
• Meter: 7.16.16.7.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1935
• Topic: Courage and Heroism
• Source: "Enlarged Songs of Praise"; "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman; Arranged
• Copyright: Words from Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, reprinted by permission from Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., authorized publishers

Tune Information

• Name: PIONEERS
• Composer: Martin Shaw (1925)
• Meter: 7.16.16.7.
• Incipit: 43222 62345 65643
• Key: E Major
• Copyright: Music from the Enlarged Songs of Praise: By permission of the Oxford University Press