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Text: | The Peace Not Past Our Understanding |
Author: | John Holmes, 1904-1962 |
Tune: | SURSUM CORDA |
Composer: | Alfred Morton Smith, 1879-1971 |
1 The peace not past our understanding
falls like light upon the soft white tablecloth
at winter supper warm between four walls,
a thing too simple to be tried as truth.
2 Not scholar’s calm, nor gift of church or state,
nor everlasting date of death’s release;
but careless noon, the houses lighted late,
harvest and holiday: the people’s peace.
3 Days into years, the doorways worn at sill,
years into lives, the plans for long increase
come true at last for those of God’s good will:
these are the things we mean by saying, Peace.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The peace not past our understanding |
Title: | The Peace Not Past Our Understanding |
Author: | John Holmes, 1904-1962 |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men: Peace; Serenity |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SURSUM CORDA |
Composer: | Alfred Morton Smith, 1879-1971 |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | © Church of the Ascension, Atlantic City, New Jersey |