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Have I Not Known
Author: Don Marquis, 1878-1937 Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom First Line: Have I not known the sky and sea Used With Tune: JERUSALEM
Have I Not Known
O Slowly, Slowly, They Return
Author: Wendell Berry, 1934- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Used With Tune: SOLOTHURN Text Sources: From Sabbaths
O Slowly, Slowly, They Return
All are Architects
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: All are architects of fate Lyrics: 1 All are architects of fate,
working in these walls of time;
some with massive deeds and great,
some with ornaments of rhyme.
2 For the structure that we raise
time is with materials filled;
our todays and yesterdays
are the blocks with which we build.
3 Build today, then, strong and sure,
with a firm and ample base;
and ascending and secure
shall tomorrow find its place. Used With Tune: WOODLAND
All are Architects
O What a Piece of Work Are We
Author: Malvina Reynolds, 1900-1978 Meter: 8.6.8.6.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Used With Tune: DOVE OF PEACE
O What a Piece of Work Are We
I Sought the Wood in Summer
Author: Willa Cather, 1893-1947 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal 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.” Used With Tune: MERLE'S TUNE
I Sought the Wood in Summer
Knowledge, They Say
Author: Arthur Noyes, 1880-1958 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom First Line: Knowledge, they say, drives wonder from the world Lyrics: 1 Knowledge, they say, drives wonder from the world;
they say it still, though all the dust's ablaze
with marvels at their feet, while Newton's laws
foretell that knowledge one day shall be song.
2 We seem like children wandering by the shore,
gathering pebbles colored by the wave;
while the great sea of truth, from sky to sky
stretches before us, boundless unexplored. Used With Tune: SHELDONIAN
Knowledge, They Say
We Are Not Our Own
Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Meter: 8.9.8.5 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: We are not our own. Earth forms us Lyrics: 1 We are not our own. Earth forms us,
human leaves on nature's growing vine,
fruit of many generations,
seeds of life divine.
2 We are not alone. Earth names us:
past and present, peoples near and far,
family and friends and strangers
show us who we are.
3 Therefore let us make thanksgiving,
and with justice, willing and aware,
give to earth, and all things living,
liturgies of care.
4 Let us be a house of welcome,
living stone upholding living stone,
gladly showing all our neighbors
we are not our own! Used With Tune: NEXUS
We Are Not Our Own
Thanks Be for These
Author: Richard Seward Gilbert, 1936-; Joyce Timmerman Gilbert, 1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: Thanks be for these, life's holy times Used With Tune: TRANSYLVANIA
Thanks Be for These
Break Not the Circle
Author: Fred Kaan, 1929- Meter: 10.11.10.11 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: Break not the circle of enabling love Lyrics: 1 Break not the circle of enabling love
where people grow, forgiven and forgiving;
break not that circle, make it wider still,
till it includes, embraces all the living.
2 Come, wonder at this love that comes to life,
where words of freedom are with humor spoken,
and people keep no score of wrong and guilt,
but will that human bonds remain unbroken.
3 Join then the movement of the love that frees,
till people of whatever race or nation
will truly be themselves, stand on their feet,
see eye to eye with laughter and elation. Used With Tune: YADDO
Break Not the Circle
A Long, Long Way the Sea-Winds Blow
Author: William Stanley Braithwaite, 1878-1962 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Here and Now Lyrics: 1 A long, long way the sea-winds blow
across the sea-plains blue,
but longer far my heart must go
before its dreams come true.
2 And work we must, and love we must,
and do the best we may,
and take the hope of dreams in trust
to keep us day by day.
3 A long, long way the sea-winds blow —
but somewhere lies a shore —
thus down the tide of time shall flow
my dreams forever more. Used With Tune: LIVERPOOL
A Long, Long Way the Sea-Winds Blow
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