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| Text: | O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! |
| Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 92 |
| Tune: | WELWYN |
| Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty, 1847 - 1918 |
1 O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother!
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
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.
3 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor
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: | O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! |
| Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 92 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1958 |
| Topic: | City, Nation, World; The Life In Christ: Service |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | WELWYN |
| Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty, 1847 - 1918 |
| Meter: | 11 10, 11 10. |
| Key: | F Major |
| Copyright: | Music by permission of the Abbot of Downside Abbey |
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