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Let All the Beauty We Have Known

Author: Dana McLean Greeley, 1908-1986 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #326 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Languages: English Tune Title: DANBY

Joy, Thou Goddess

Author: Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #327 (1993) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness First Line: Joy, thou goddess, fair immortal Lyrics: 2 Joy, thou goddess, fair immortal, offspring of Elysium, mad with rapture, to the portal of thy holy fane we come! Fashion’s laws, indeed, may sever, but thy magic joins again; humankind is one forever ‘neath thy mild and gentle reign. 2 Joy, in nature’s wide dominion, mightiest cause of all is found; and ‘tis joy that moves the pinion, when the wheel of time goes round; from the bud she lures the flower, suns from out their orbs of light; distant spheres obey her power, far beyond all mortal sight. --- GERMAN - 1 Freude, schóner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, wir betreten feuertrunken, himmlische, dein Heiligtum. Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt, alle Menschen werden Brúder, wo dein sanfter Flúgel weilt. 2 Freude heiefst die starke Feder in der ewigen Natur. Freude, Freude treibt die Ráder in der grossen Weltenuhr. Blumen lockt sie ausden Keimen, Sonnen aus dem Firmament, Spháren rollt sie in den Raumen, die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt. Languages: English; German Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY

I Sought the Wood in Summer

Author: Willa Cather, 1893-1947 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #328 (1993) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Lyrics: 1 I sought the wood in summer when every twig was green; the rudest boughs were tender, and buds were pink between. Light-fingered aspens trembled in fitful sun and shade, and daffodils were golden in every starry glade. 2 “How frail a thing is Beauty,” I said, “when every breath she gives the vagrant summer but swifter woos her death. For this the star dust troubles, for this have ages rolled: to deck the wood for bridal and slay her with the cold.” 3 I sought the wood in winter when every leaf was dead; behind the wind-whipped branches the winter sun was red. The birches, white and slender, in breathless marble stood, the brook, a white immortal, slept silent in the wood. 4 “How sure a thing is Beauty,” I cried. “No bolt can slay, nor wave nor shock despoil her, nor ravishers dismay. The granite hills are slighter, the sea more like to fail, behind the rose the planet, the Law behind the veil.” Languages: English Tune Title: MERLE'S TUNE

Life Has Loveliness to Sell

Author: Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #329 (1993) Meter: 7.8.7.7.8.7 Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Lyrics: 1 Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. 2 Life has loveliness to sell, as music, like a curve of gold, scent of pine trees in the rain, eyes that love you, arms that hold, and for your spirit's still delight, holy thoughts that star the night. 3 Spend all you have for loveliness, to buy and never count the cost; for one singing hour of peace count many a year of strive well lost, and for a breath of ecstasy give all you have been, or could be. Languages: English Tune Title: BLISS

The Arching Sky of Morning Glows

Author: Mark L. Belletini, 1949- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #330 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS' CANON

Life Is the Greatest Gift of All

Author: William E. Oliver; Waldemar Hille, 1908- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #331 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Languages: English Tune Title: BROTHER JAMES' AIR

Perfect Singer

Author: George Kimmich Beach, 1935- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #332 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness First Line: Perfect Singer, songs of earth Languages: English Tune Title: CHORALE

Alone She Cuts and Binds the Grain

Author: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #333 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom 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. Languages: English Tune Title: DEVOTION

When Shall We Learn

Author: W. H. Auden, 1907-1973 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #334 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom First Line: When shall we learn, what should be clear as day Languages: English Tune Title: FLENTGE

Once When My Heart Was Passion Free

Author: John B. Tabb, 1845-1909 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #335 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Lyrics: 1 Once when my heart was passion free to learn of things divine, the soul of nature suddenly outpoured itself in mine. 2 I held the secrets of the deep and of the heavens above; I knew the harmonies of sleep, the mysteries of love. 3 And for a moment’s interval the earth, the sky, the sea — my soul encompassed each and all, as they encompass me. Languages: English Tune Title: PRIMROSE