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The Morning Hangs a Signal

Author: William Channing Gannett, 1840-1923 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Morning Lyrics: 1 The morning hangs a signal upon the mountain crest, while all the sleeping valleys in silent darkness rest. From peak to peak it flashes, it laughs along the sky, till glory of the sunlight on all the land shall lie. 2 Above the generations the lonely prophets rise, while truth flares as the daystar within their glowing eyes; and other eyes, beholding, are kindled from that flame; and dawn becomes the morning, when prophets love proclaim. 3 The soul has lifted moments, above the drift of days, when life’s great meaning breaketh in sunrise on our ways. Behold the radiant token of faith above all fear; night shall release its splendor that morning shall appear. Used With Tune: MEIRIONYDD

Calm Soul of All Things

Author: Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs First Line: Calm soul of all things, make it mine Lyrics: 1 Calm soul of all things, make it mine to feel, amid the city’s jar, that there abides a peace of thine I did not make, and cannot mar. 2 The will to neither strive nor cry, the power to feel with others, give. Calm, calm me more; nor let me die before I have begun to live. Used With Tune: TALLIS' CANON

For Flowers That Bloom about Our Feet

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8.7 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The World of Nature Used With Tune: WAS GOTT THUT

Many and Great, O God (Muchas y Grandes Tus obras, Dios)

Author: Philip Frazier, 1892-1964; Alberto Merubia, b. 1919 Meter: 9.6.9.9.9.6 Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Transcendence First Line: Many and great, O God, are your works (Muchas y grandes tu obras, Dios) Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: LACQUIPARLE Text Sources: Dakota hymn

Give Thanks

Author: Anonymous Meter: 11.11.12.12 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Harvest and Thanksgiving First Line: Give thanks for the corn and the wheat that are reaped Lyrics: 1 Give thanks for the corn and the wheat that are reaped, for labor well done and for barns that are heaped, for the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb, for the rose and the song and the harvest brought home. 2 Give thanks for the mills and the farms of our land, for craft and the strength in the work of our hands, for the beauty our artists and poets have wrought, for the hope and affection our friendships have brought. 3 Give thanks for the homes that with kindness are blessed, for seasons of plenty and well-deserved rest, for our country extending from sea unto sea, for ways that have made it a land for the free. Used With Tune: FOUNDATION

Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design

Author: Nancy C. Dorian, 1936- Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence Used With Tune: LOBT GOTT, IHR CHRISTEN

Bring Many Names

Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Meter: 9.10.6.5.5.4 Appears in 21 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence First Line: Bring many names, beautiful and good Lyrics: 1 Bring many names, beautiful and good; celebrate in parable and story, holiness in glory, living, loving God: hail and hosanna, bring many names. 2 Strong mother God, working night and day, planning all the wonders of creation, setting each equation, genius at play: hail and hosanna, strong mother God! 3 Warm father God, hugging ev’ry child, feeling all the strains of human living, caring and forgiving till we’re reconciled: hail and hosanna, warm father God! 4 Old, aching God, grey with endless care, calmly piercing evil’s new disguises, glad of new surprises, wiser than despair: hail and hosanna, old, aching God! 5 Young, growing God, eager still to know, willing to be changed by what you’ve started, quick to be delighted, singing as you go: hail and hosanna, young, growing God! 6 Great, living God, never fully known, joyful darkness far beyond our seeing, closer yet than breathing, everlasting home: hail and hosanna, great, living God! Used With Tune: WESTCHASE

Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Harvest and Thanksgiving First Line: Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Lyrics: 1 Heap high the farmer’s wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has autumn poured from out the lavish horn! 2 Through vales of grass and meads of flowers our plows their furrows made, while on the hills the sun and showers of changeful April played. 3 We dropped the long, bright days of June beneath the sun of May, and frightened from our sprouting grain the robber crows away. 4 All through the long, bright days of June its leaves grew green and fair, and waved in hot mid-summer’s noon its soft and yellow hair. 5 And now, with autumn’s moonlit eyes, its harvest time has come, we pluck away the frosted leaves and bear the treasure home. Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

In Heaven Above

Author: Laurentius Laurentii Laurinius; Johan Astrom; William Maccall Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 36 hymnals Topics: God Transcendence First Line: In heaven above, in heaven above Lyrics: 1 In heaven above, in beaven above, where God our Father dwells, how boundless there the blessèdness-- no tongue its greatness tells! There face to face, and full and free, the everlasting God we see, our God, the Lord of hosts! 2 In heaven above, in heaven above, what glory deep and bright! The splendor of the noonday sun grows pale before its light; that mighty Sun that ne’er goes down, before whose face clouds never frown, is God the Lord of hosts! 3 In heaven above, in heaven above, no tears of pain are shed; for nothing there can fade or die, life’s fullness round is spread; and, like an ocean, joy o’erflows, and with immortal mercy glows our God, the Lord of hosts! 4 In heaven above, in heaven above, God has a joy prepared, which mortal ear has never heard, nor mortal vision shared, which never entered mortal thought, in mortal dreams was never sought, O God, the Lord of hosts! Scripture: Isaiah 6:5 Used With Tune: I HIMMELEN

Sovereign and Transforming Grace

Author: Frederick Henry Hedge, 1805-1890 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence Lyrics: 1 Sovereign and transforming Grace, we invoke your quickening power; reign the spirit of this place, bless the purpose of this hour. 2 Holy and creative Light, we invoke your kindling ray; dawn upon our spirit's night, as the darkness turns to day. 3 To the anxious soul impart hope, all other hopes above; stir the dull and hardened heart with a longing and a love. Used With Tune: MANTON