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Text: | Give peace, O God, the nations cry |
Author: | John W. Norris |
Tune: | VERMONT |
Composer: | Anna L. Miller |
1 Give peace, O God, the nations cry,
From evil man and deed;
Their voices, rising to the sky,
Proclaim a human need.
2 Yet not thy peace, O God, they ask,
The peace that grace bestows;
The peace which hallows care and task,
That makes us friends, not foes.
3 But peace they ask from war’s alarms,
Surcease from earthly care,
And peace that rests on fighting arms
Of land and sea and air.
4 We need the peace of heart and mind
In men from hate set free,
Who by their love for human kind
Show deeper love for thee.
5 O cleanse all hearts of pride and greed,
Remove all lust and sin,
That man from chains of wrath be freed,
Eternal peace to win.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Give peace, O God, the nations cry |
Author: | John W. Norris |
Meter: | C. M. |
Publication Date: | 1940 |
Topic: | Peace: International; Social Religion: War and peace; Trinity XX: Evening Prayer General |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VERMONT |
Composer: | Anna L. Miller (1941) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | d minor |
Copyright: | Copyright 1943, by The Church Pension Fund |