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Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Cyril V. Taylor, b. 1907 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 51244 31625 51246 Used With Text: From All the Fret and Fever of the Day

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Seek Not Afar for Beauty

Author: Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 16 hymnals First Line: Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows Lyrics: 1 Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows in dew-wet grasses all bout your feet, in birds, in sunshine, childish faces sweet, in stars and mountain summits topped with snows. 2 Go not abroad for happiness; behold it is a flower blooming at your door. Bring love and justice home, and evermore joy shall be yours as changing years unfold. 3 In wonder-workings or some bush aflame, we look for Truth and fancy it concealed; but in earth's common things it stands revealed, while grass and flowers and stars spell out the name. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The World of Nature; Beauty; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; The Living Tradition Used With Tune: COOLINGE

Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today

Author: Robert Frost, 1875-1963 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today, and give us not to think so far away as the uncertain harvest; keep us here all simply in the springing of the year. 2 Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; and make us happy in the happy bees, the swarm dilating round the perfect trees. 3 And make us happy in the darting bird that suddenly above the bees is heard, the meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, and off a blossom in mid air stands still. 4 For this is love and nothing else is love, the which it is reserved for God above to sanctify to what far ends he will, but which it only needs that we fulfill. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Spring; Animals; Flower Communion; Nature and the Countryside Used With Tune: COOLINGE

From All the Fret and Fever of the Day

Author: Monroe Beardsley, b. 1915 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 From all the fret and fever of the day, let there be moments when we turn away, and, deaf to all confusing outer din, intently listen for the voice within. 2 In quietness and solitude we find the soundless wisdom of the deeper mind; with clear harmonious purpose let us then bring richer meaning to the world again. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; Serenity; Wisdom and Understanding Used With Tune: COOLINGE

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Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today

Author: Robert Frost, 1875-1963 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #64 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Lyrics: 1 Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today, and give us not to think so far away as the uncertain harvest; keep us here all simply in the springing of the year. 2 Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; and make us happy in the happy bees, the swarm dilating round the perfect trees. 3 And make us happy in the darting bird that suddenly above the bees is heard, the meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, and off a blossom in mid air stands still. 4 For this is love and nothing else is love, the which it is reserved for God above to sanctify to what far ends he will, but which it only needs that we fulfill. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Spring; Animals; Flower Communion; Nature and the Countryside Languages: English Tune Title: COOLINGE

Seek Not Afar for Beauty

Author: Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #77 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows Lyrics: 1 Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows in dew-wet grasses all bout your feet, in birds, in sunshine, childish faces sweet, in stars and mountain summits topped with snows. 2 Go not abroad for happiness; behold it is a flower blooming at your door. Bring love and justice home, and evermore joy shall be yours as changing years unfold. 3 In wonder-workings or some bush aflame, we look for Truth and fancy it concealed; but in earth's common things it stands revealed, while grass and flowers and stars spell out the name. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The World of Nature; Beauty; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; The Living Tradition Languages: English Tune Title: COOLINGE

From All the Fret and Fever of the Day

Author: Monroe Beardsley, b. 1915 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #90 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Lyrics: 1 From all the fret and fever of the day, let there be moments when we turn away, and, deaf to all confusing outer din, intently listen for the voice within. 2 In quietness and solitude we find the soundless wisdom of the deeper mind; with clear harmonious purpose let us then bring richer meaning to the world again. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; Serenity; Wisdom and Understanding Languages: English Tune Title: COOLINGE

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Cyril Taylor

1907 - 1991 Person Name: Cyril V. Taylor, b. 1907 Composer of "COOLINGE" in Singing the Living Tradition Cyril V. Taylor (b. Wigan, Lancashire, England, 1907; d. Petersfield, England, 1991) was a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1932, he served the church as both pastor and musician. His positions included being a producer in the religious broadcasting department of the BBC (1939-1953), chaplain of the Royal School of Church Music (1953-1958), vicar of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (1958-1969), and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral (1969-1975). He contributed twenty hymn tunes to the BBC Hymn Book (1951), which he edited, and other tunes to the Methodist Hymns and Psalms (1983). He also edited 100 Hymns for Today (1969) and More Hymns for Today (1980). Writer of the booklet Hymns for Today Discussed (1984), Taylor was chairman of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1975 to 1980. Bert Polman

Minot J. Savage

1841 - 1918 Person Name: Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 Author of "Seek Not Afar for Beauty" in Singing the Living Tradition Savage, Minot Judson, D.D., was born at Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, 1841, and educated at Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 1864. From 1867 to 1873 he was a Congregational Minister, and then he joined the Unitarians, and has now (1900) a charge in Boston. He has published several works, including Poems, Boston, 1882. He also edited, with H. M. Dow, Sacred Songs for Public Worship, Boston, 1883, to which he contributed 46 original hymns. In hymnals other than this, of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Dost thou hear the bugle sounding. Consecration to Duty. 2. Father, we would not dare to change Thy purpose, &C. Prayer. 3. 0 God Whose law is in the sky. Consecration to Duty. 4. 0 star of truth down shining. Truth. 5. The God that to the fathers revealed His holy will. God unchangeable. 6. The very blossoms of our life. Holy Baptism. 7. What purpose burns within our hearts. Joining in Church Fellowship. 8. God of the glorious summer hours. New Year This is in D. Agate's Sunday S. Hymn Book, 1881, No. 371, and dated 1875. From the Sunny Side, N.Y.. 1875,p. 119. Some of these hymns are given in Hunter's Hymns of Faith and Life, Glasgow, 1889, and recent American hymnals. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)