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607 | Voices United#608 | 609 |
Text: | Dear God, Who Loves All Humankind |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | REST |
Composer: | Frederick Charles Maker |
1 Dear God, who loves all humankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
reclothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word,
rise up, and follow thee.
3 O sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
4 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
5 Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Dear God, who loves all humankind |
Title: | Dear God, Who Loves All Humankind |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1872, alt.) |
Meter: | 8 6 8 8 6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Church in the World: Renewal: Healing; Calling and Response; Calmness and Serenity(26 more...) |
Notes: | Alt tune: REPTON |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | REST |
Composer: | Frederick Charles Maker (1887) |
Meter: | 8 6 8 8 6 |
Key: | D Major |