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Text: | Seek Not Afar for Beauty |
Author: | Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 |
Tune: | COOLINGE |
Composer: | Cyril V. Taylor, b. 1907 |
1 Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows
in dew-wet grasses all bout your feet,
in birds, in sunshine, childish faces sweet,
in stars and mountain summits topped with snows.
2 Go not abroad for happiness; behold
it is a flower blooming at your door.
Bring love and justice home, and evermore
joy shall be yours as changing years unfold.
3 In wonder-workings or some bush aflame,
we look for Truth and fancy it concealed;
but in earth's common things it stands revealed,
while grass and flowers and stars spell out the name.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows |
Title: | Seek Not Afar for Beauty |
Author: | Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: The World of Nature; Beauty; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | COOLINGE |
Composer: | Cyril V. Taylor, b. 1907 |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Copyright: | © Hope Publishing Co. |