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Bring, O Past, Your Honor

Author: Charles H. Lyttle, 1884-1980 Meter: 12.13.12.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: Bring, O Past, your honor; bring, O Time, your harvest Lyrics: 1 Bring, O Past, your honor; bring, O Time, your harvest, golden sheaves of hallowed lives and minds by Truth made free; come, you faithful spirits, builders of this temple: “To Holiness, to Love, and Liberty.” 2 Ring, in glad thanksgiving, bell of grief and gladness, forth to town and prairie let our festal greeting go. Voices long departed in your tones re-echo: “Praise to the Highest, Peace to all below.” 3 Shrine of frontier courage, Sinai of its vision, home and hearth of common quest for life’s immortal good, stand, in years oncoming, sentinel of conscience, as through the past your stalwart walls have stood. 4 Church of pure reformers, pioneers undaunted, company of comrades sworn to keep the spirit free; long o’er life’s swift river preach th’eternal gospel: faith, hope, and love for all humanity. Used With Tune: NICAEA

Make Channels for the Streams of Love

Author: Richard Chenevix Trency,1807-1886 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 67 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Lyrics: 1 Make channels for the streams of love where they may broadly run; and love has overflowing streams to fill them every one. 2 But if at any time we cease such channels to provide, the very founts of love for us will soon be parched and dried. 3 For we must share, if we would keep this gift all else above; we cease to give, we cease to have — such is the law of love. Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

O Star of Truth

Author: Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: O star of truth, downshining Lyrics: 1 O star of truth, down-shining, through clouds of doubt and fear, I ask beneath thy guidance my pathway may appear: however long the journey, however hard it be, though I be lone and weary, lead on, I follow thee. 2 I know thy blessed radiance can never lead astray, though ancient creed and custom may point another way; or through the untrod desert, or over trackless sea, though I be lone and weary, lead on, I follow thee. Used With Tune: NYLAND

O Ye Who Taste That Love Is Sweet

Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Lyrics: O filii et filiae, Alleluia. 1 O ye who taste that love is sweet, set way-marks for the doubtful feet that stumble on in search of it. Alleluia. 2 Sing hymns of love; that some who hear far off, in pain, may lend an ear. Rise up and wonder and draw near. Alleluia. 3 Lead lives of love; that others who behold your lives may kindle too with love, and cast their lot with you. Alleluia. Used With Tune: O FILII ET FILIAE

Guide My Feet

Meter: Irregular Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Hope First Line: Guide my feet while I run this race Lyrics: 1 Guide my feet while I run this race. Guide my feet while I run this race. Guide my feet while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain! 2 Hold my hand while I run this race. Hold my hand while I run this race. Hold my hand while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain! 3 Stand by me while I run this race. Stand by me while I run this race. Stand by me while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain! 4 Search my heart while I run this race. Search my heart while I run this race. Search my heart while I run this race, for I don’t want to run this race in vain! Used With Tune: GUIDE MY FEET Text Sources: Traditional

We Are the Earth Upright and Proud

Author: Kenneth L. Patton, 1911- Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Used With Tune: EIN' FESTE BURG

We Gather Together

Author: Dorothy Caiger Senghas, 1930-; Robert E. Senghas, 1928- Meter: 12.11.13.12 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Hope First Line: We gather together in joyful thanksgving Used With Tune: KREMSER

The Blessings of the Earth and Sky

Author: Kenneth L. Patton, 1911- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Used With Tune: MACH'S MIT MIR, GOTT

With Joy We Claim the Growing Light

Author: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Hope Lyrics: 1 With joy we claim the growing light, advancing thought, and widening view, the larger freedom, clearer sight, which from the old unfold the new. 2 With wider view, come loftier goal; with fuller light, more good to see; with freedom, truer self-control; with knowledge, deeper reverence be. Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW

All My Memories of Love

Author: Anna Akhmatova, c. 1888-1966; Mark L. Belletini, 1949- Meter: 7.5.7.5 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Lyrics: 1 All my memories of love hang upon high stars. All the souls I’ve lost to tears now the autumn jars; and the air around me here thickens with their song; sing again their nameless tunes, sing again, and strong. 2 Willows in September touch the water clear, set among the rushes tall of the flowing year. Rising up from sunlit past comes the shadowed sigh running toward me silently, love to fortify. 3 Many are the graceful hearts hung upon this tree. And it seems there’s room for mine on these branches free; and the sky above the tree, whether wet or bright, is my ease and comforting, my good news and light. Used With Tune: ADORO TE DEVOTE

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

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

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

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

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

Earth Is Our Homeland

Author: Mark L. Belletini, 1949-; Helen R. Pickett, 1929- Meter: 11.11.8.6.8.9 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: Earth is our homeland: a song of stars, a grace Used With Tune: SYMPHONY

Let All the Beauty We Have Known

Author: Dana McLean Greeley, 1908-1986 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Used With Tune: DANBY

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

Author: Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 Meter: Irregular Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Lyrics: If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Used With Tune: SMIT

The Earth Is Home

Author: Kenneth L. Patton, 1911- Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: The earth is home and all abundant Used With Tune: ALBRIGHT

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

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