Worship in Song ‎#286

286. Who Are the Patriots?

1 Who are the patriots? Those who light
the torch of war from hill to hill?
Or those who kindle on the heights
the beacons of a world's good will?

2 Who are the patriots? Those who serve
this globe suspended in the dark of space.
This fragile planet they conserve,
the homeland of the human race.

3 We draw our boundaries in our pride,
defend them with our children's blood.
But rains and winds and ocean tides
declare the truth; the world is one.

4 Who are the patriots? Only those
whose purpose is the common good,
who in their love all lands enclose,
whose world is all one neighborhood.

Text Information

• First Line: Who are the patriots? Those who light
• Title: Who Are the Patriots?
• Author: Frederick Lawrence Knowles (1904)
• Adapter: Roberta Bard Ruby (1987)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: Care for the environment; Good will; Human Family; Justice; Peace; Truth

Tune Information

• Name: TRURO
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.
• Key: C Major
• Source: Thomas Williams' Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789