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| Text: | No Longer Forward nor Behind |
| Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 |
| Tune: | VAN DIEMAN'S LAND |
| Arranger: | Waldemar Hille, 1908- |
1 No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
but, grateful, take the good I find,
the best of now and here.
I break my pilgrim staff,
I lay aside the toiling oar;
the angel sought so far away
I welcome at my door.
2 For all the jarring notes of life
seem blending in a psalm,
and all the angles of its strife
slow rounding into calm.
And so the shadows fall apart,
and so the west winds play;
and all the windows of my heart
I open to the day.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | No longer forward nor behind |
| Title: | No Longer Forward nor Behind |
| Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 |
| Meter: | 8.6.8.6.6.8.8.6. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1993 |
| Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: The Celebration of Life; The Eternal Now; Morning (1 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | VAN DIEMAN'S LAND |
| Arranger: | Waldemar Hille, 1908- |
| Meter: | 8.6.8.6.6.8.8.6. |
| Incipit: | 54512 34765 44311 |
| Key: | d minor or modal |
| Source: | Van Dieman's Land [English folk] |
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