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Be Thou My Vision

Author: Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1391; Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: 10.10.9.10 Appears in 162 hymnals First Line: Be thou my vision, O God of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be thou my vision, O God of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. 2 Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word; I ever with thee and thou with me God; thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tower. raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power. 3 Riches I heed not, nor world's empty praise, thou my inheritance, now and always; thou and thou only, first in my heart, Sov'reign of heaven, my treasure thou art. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; Faith; God, Goddess, and Spirit Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Ancient Irish

Now Thank We All Our God

Author: Martin Rinkart, 1586-1649; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 694 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things hath done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our parents' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. 2 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; the one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore, for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; God, Goddess, and Spirit; Gratitude; Parents; Thanksgiving Day Used With Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Author: John Francis Wade, 1711-1786; Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880 Meter: Irregular Appears in 99 hymnals First Line: Adeste, fideles, laeti triumphantes (O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant Refrain First Line: venite, adoremus Lyrics: LATIN - 1 Adeste, fideles, laeti, triumphantes; venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum. Refrain: venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus Dominum. --- 1 O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant; O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem. Come and behold him, born the King of angels; [Refrain] 2 Lo, humble shepherds, hasting to his cradle, leaving their flocks in the fields, draw near. We, too, with gladness, thither bend our footsteps; [Refrain] 3 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation; O sing, all ye citizens of heaven above! Glory to God, all glory in the highest; [Refrain] Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,251 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: 2 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame, from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, soon bears us all away; we fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. 5 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Psalms; Change; Faith; God, Goddess, and Spirit Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Far Rolling Voices

Author: Max Kapp, 1904-1979 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Far rolling voices of the sea Lyrics: 1 Far rolling voices of the sea chant loud upon the shore. They tell the ancient mystery of God forever more. 2 Newborn, the sun in glory rides across the heav’nly fields. The starry host in silence bides and to the morning yields. 3 White seabirds wheel against the sky, companioned with the dawn. God, lift our winging souls on high, share in creation’s morn. 4 Your universal waters sweep upon the endless strands. Your love and mercy ever keep asurge in all thy lands. 5 Far rolling voices of the sea chant loud upon the shore. They tell the ancient mystery, O God, forevermore. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; Morning; Water Ceremony Used With Tune: OIKOUMENE

Ring Out, Wild Bells

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 97 hymnals First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild, wild sky Lyrics: 1 Ring out, wild bells, to the wild, wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light: the year is dying in the night; ring out, wild bells, and let it die. 2 Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow: the year is going, let it go; ring out the false, ring in the true. 3 Ring out the grief that saps the mind for those that here we see no more; ring out the feud of rich and poor; ring in redress to humankind. 4 Ring out false pride in place and blood, the civic slander and the spite; ring in the love of truth and right; ring in the common love of good. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Winter; The New Year; Peace and War Used With Tune: GONFALON ROYAL

O Thou Joyful Day

Meter: 5.5.7.5.5.9 Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Earth’s hope awaken, Love life has taken. Joy, O, joy to all at Christmastide. 2 O sanctissima, O sanctissima, gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Light now is beaming, our souls redeeming. Joy, O, joy to all at Christmastide. Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas; Communion Used With Tune: SICILIAN MARINERS Text Sources: Traditional

Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield

Meter: Irregular Appears in 41 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Gonna lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside. Gonna lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, gonna study war no more. Refrain: I ain’t gonna study war no more, I ain’t gonna study war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more. I ain’t gonna study war no more, I ain’t gonna study war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more. 2 Gonna lay down my burden, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside. Gonna lay down my burden, down by the riverside, gonna study war no more. [Refrain] 3 Gonna shake hands around the world, ev'rywhere I roam, ev'rywhere I roam, ev'rywhere I roam. Gonna shake hands around the world, ev'rywhere I roam, gonna study war no more. [Refrain] Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men Peace Used With Tune: DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE Text Sources: African American spiritual, c. 1750-1875

For the Beauty of the Earth

Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, 18365-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 642 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 2 For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 3 For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 4 For the joy of human care, sister, brother, parent, child, for the kinship we all share, for all gentle thoughts and mild: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; Celebration and Praise; Earth; Families; Gratitude; Nature and the Countryside; Thanksgiving Day Used With Tune: DIX

Alone She Cuts and Binds the Grain

Author: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Alone she cuts and binds the grain, and sings a melancholy strain: O listen! for the vale profound is overflowing with the sound. 2 Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy far-off things, and for the battles long ago. 3 Or is it some more humble lay, familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, that once has been, may be again? 4 I listened, motionless and still, and, as I mounted up the hill, the music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more. Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom; The Arts; Labor; Sorrow Used With Tune: DEVOTION