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WOODLAND (Benjamin)

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Benjamin Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55612 34543 23167

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All are Architects

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 17 hymnals 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. Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity; The Arts; Humankind; The Living Tradition Used With Tune: WOODLAND

Down the Ages We Have Trod

Author: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; God, Goddess, and Spirit Used With Tune: WOODLAND

Be That Guide

Author: Carl G. Seaburg, 1932- Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Be that guide whom love sustains Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men Love and Compassion; Commitment; Ministry; Ordination and Installation; Prophets; Religious Education Used With Tune: WOODLAND

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Down the Ages We Have Trod

Author: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #2 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning; God, Goddess, and Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLAND

Be That Guide

Author: Carl G. Seaburg, 1932- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #124 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 First Line: Be that guide whom love sustains Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men Love and Compassion; Commitment; Ministry; Ordination and Installation; Prophets; Religious Education Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLAND
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All are Architects

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #288 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 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. Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity; The Arts; Humankind; The Living Tradition Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLAND

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Thomas Benjamin

b. 1940 Person Name: Thomas Benjamin, 1940- Composer of "WOODLAND" in Singing the Living Tradition Thomas Benjamin was born in 1940 in Bennington, Vermont. He received degrees from Bard College, Bradeis, Harvard and Eastman. He has taught at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, the University of Houston's School of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory of The John Hopkins University. He is the co-author of three music theory texts and the author of two books on counterpoint. He has composed music for violin, piano, viola, orchestra, chamber orchestras and choir. He has also written oratorios, cantatas, operas, and a number of hymn tunes for the Unitarian church. Dianne Shapiro from "A digital library of Unitarian Universalist biographies, books, and media," Harvard Square Library, accessed online 8/9/2020

John Andrew Storey

b. 1935 Person Name: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Author of "Down the Ages We Have Trod" in Singing the Living Tradition Unitarian-Universalist

Carl G. Seaburg

1922 - 1998 Person Name: Carl G. Seaburg, 1932- Author of "Be That Guide" in Singing the Living Tradition
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