The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook ‎#590a

590a. Fold to your heart your sister and your brother

1 Fold to your heart your sister and your brother:
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
to worship rightly and to love each other,
each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
the holier worship which He deigns to bless
restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
and feeds the widow and the fatherless.

2 Follow with reverent steps the great example
of Him whose holy work was doing good:
so shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
Then shall all shackles fall: the stormy clangour
of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

Text Information

• First Line: Fold to your heart your sister and your brother
• Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892
• Meter: 11 10 11 10 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2004

Tune Information

• Name: LONDONDERRY AIR
• Arranger: John Barnard, b. 1948
• Meter: 11 10 11 10 D
• Key: C Major
• Source: Irish traditional melody
• Copyright: Arr. © John Barnard / Jubilate Hymns