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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our Praise We Give

Author: John Coleman Adams, 1849-1922 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: Our praise we give for harvests earned Lyrics: 1 Our praise we give for harvests earned, the fruits of labor garnered in; but praise we more the soil unturned from which the yield is yet to win. 2 Our praise we give for harbor’s lee, for moorings safe in waters still; but more the leagues of open sea, where favoring gales our canvas fill. 3 Our praise we give for journey’s end, the inn, all warmth and light and cheer; but more for length’ning roads that wend through dust and heat and hilltops clear. Used With Tune: GONFALON ROYAL
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May Your Life Be As a Song

Author: Jim Scott, 1946- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Lyrics: May your life be as a song, Resounding with the dawn to sing awake the light. And softly serenade the stars, Ever dancing circles in the night. Used With Tune: [May your life be as a song]

Where My Free Spirit Onward Leads

Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD
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Joy, Thou Goddess

Author: Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness First Line: Joy, thou goddess, fair immortal Lyrics: 2 Joy, thou goddess, fair immortal, offspring of Elysium, mad with rapture, to the portal of thy holy fane we come! Fashion’s laws, indeed, may sever, but thy magic joins again; humankind is one forever ‘neath thy mild and gentle reign. 2 Joy, in nature’s wide dominion, mightiest cause of all is found; and ‘tis joy that moves the pinion, when the wheel of time goes round; from the bud she lures the flower, suns from out their orbs of light; distant spheres obey her power, far beyond all mortal sight. --- GERMAN - 1 Freude, schóner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, wir betreten feuertrunken, himmlische, dein Heiligtum. Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt, alle Menschen werden Brúder, wo dein sanfter Flúgel weilt. 2 Freude heiefst die starke Feder in der ewigen Natur. Freude, Freude treibt die Ráder in der grossen Weltenuhr. Blumen lockt sie ausden Keimen, Sonnen aus dem Firmament, Spháren rollt sie in den Raumen, die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt. Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY

The Arching Sky of Morning Glows

Author: Mark L. Belletini, 1949- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Used With Tune: TALLIS' CANON

A Promise through the Ages Rings

Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Hope Used With Tune: WAS GOTT THUT
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Faith of the Larger Liberty

Author: Vincent B. Silliman, 1894-1979 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Lyrics: 1 Faith of the larger liberty, source of the light expanding, law of the church that is to be, old bondage notwithstanding: faith of the free! By thee we live — by all thou givest and shalt give our loyalty commanding. 2 Heroes of faith in every age, far-seeing, self-denying, wrought an increasing heritage, monarch and creed defying. Faith of the free! In thy dear name the costly heritage we claim: their living and their dying. 3 Faith for the people everywhere, whatever their oppression, of all who make the world more fair, living their faith’s confession: faith of the free! Whate’er our plight, thy law, thy liberty, thy light shall be our blest possession. Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART

Creative Love, Our Thanks We Give

Author: William DeWitt Hyde, 1858-1917; Beth Ide, 1921- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 44 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Used With Tune: TRUTH FROM ABOVE
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Alone She Cuts and Binds the Grain

Author: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Lyrics: 1 Alone she cuts and binds the grain, and sings a melancholy strain: O listen! for the vale profound is overflowing with the sound. 2 Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy far-off things, and for the battles long ago. 3 Or is it some more humble lay, familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, that once has been, may be again? 4 I listened, motionless and still, and, as I mounted up the hill, the music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more. Used With Tune: DEVOTION

The Human Touch Can Light the Flame

Author: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Used With Tune: DICKINSON COLLEGE

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

Die Gedanken Sind Frei

Author: Arthur Kevess; Elizabeth Bennett Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6.5.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: Die Gedanken sind frei Used With Tune: DIE GEDANKEN SIND FREI Text Sources: German folk song
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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

A Core of Silence

Author: Jim Reilly, 1943- Meter: 10.8.10.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: A core of silence breathes beyond all words Used With Tune: TRUE RELIGION

Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky!

Author: Grace Lewis-McLaren, 1939- Meter: 6.7.7.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Used With Tune: TOUCH THE EARTH
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Here in the Flesh

Author: John Masefield, 1878-1967 Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: Here in the flesh is all that we can know Lyrics: 1 Here in the flesh is all that we can know, all beauty, all wonder, all the power, all the unearthly colors, all the glow, here in the self which withers like a flower. 2 Here in the flesh is all that we will find, swift in the blood and throbbing in the bone, Beauty herself, the universal mind, eternal April wandering alone. Used With Tune: SONG SPRINGS

Perfect Singer

Author: George Kimmich Beach, 1935- Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness First Line: Perfect Singer, songs of earth Used With Tune: CHORALE

Will you Seek in Far-Off Places?

Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Here and Now Used With Tune: GUTER HIRTE Text Sources: Based on a text by Walt Whitman

Go Lifted Up

Author: Mortimer B. Barron, 1939- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Used With Tune: [Go lifted up]
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Be Ours a Religion

Author: Theodore Parker, 1810-1860 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings First Line: Be ours a religion which like the sunshine goes everywhere Lyrics: Be ours a religion which like sunshine goes everywhere, its temple all space, its shrine the good heart, its creed all truth, its ritual works of love. Used With Tune: [Be ours a religion which like the sunshine goes everywhere]

As We Sing of Hope and Joy

Author: Elizabeth Alexander, 1962- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings First Line: As we sing of hope and joy today Used With Tune: [As we sing of hope and joy today]
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For So the Children Come

Author: Sophia Lyon Fahs, 1876-1978 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings First Line: Each night a child is born is a holy night Lyrics: Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping, Each night a child is born is a holy night. Narrator: 1 For so the children come And so they have been coming Always in the same way they come born of the seed of man and woman. Congregation sings: Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping, Each night a child is born is a holy night. Narrator: 2 No angels herald their beginnings. No prophets predict their future courses No wise men see a star to show where to find The babe that will save humankind Congregation: Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping, Each night a child is born is a holy night. Narrator: 3 Yet each night a child is born is a holy night Fathers and mothers–sitting beside their children’s cribs Feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning They ask, “Where and how will this new life end? Or will it ever end?” Congregation: Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping, Each night a child is born is a holy night. Narrator: 4 Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping Congregation: Each night a child is born is a holy night: A time for singing, A time for wondering, A time for worshipping, Each night a child is born is a holy night. Used With Tune: [Each night a child is born is a holy night]

All Around the Child

Author: Jim Scott, 1946- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings First Line: Ancient story lived again Used With Tune: [Ancient story lived again]
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We Would Be One

Author: Sameul Anthony Wright, 1919- Meter: 11.10.11.10.11.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: We would be one as now we join in singing Lyrics: 1 We would be one as now we join in singing our hymn of love, to pledge ourselves anew to that high cause of greater understanding of who we are, and what in us is true. We would be one in living for each other to show to all a new community. 2 We would be one in building for tomorrow a nobler world than we have known today. We would be one in searching for that meaning which bends our hearts and points us on our way. As one, we pledge ourselves to greater service, with love and justice, strive to make us free. Used With Tune: FINLANDIA

With Heart and Mind

Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: With heart and mind and voice and hand Used With Tune: MACH'S MIT MIR, GOTT

Golden Breaks the Dawn

Author: T. C. Chao, b. 1888; Frank W. Price; Daniel Niles; John Andrew Storey, 1935- Meter: 5.5.5.5 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Here and Now Used With Tune: LE P'ING
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Wake, Now, My Senses

Author: Thomas J. S. Mikelson, 1936- Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity First Line: Wake now, my senses, and hear the earth call Lyrics: 1 Wake, now, my senses, and hear the earth call; feel the deep power of being in all; keep, with the web of creation your vow, giving, receiving as love shows us how. 2 Wake, now, my reason, reach out to the new; join with each pilgrim who quests for the true; honor the beauty and wisdom of time; suffer thy limit, and praise the sublime. 3 Wake, now, compassion, give heed to the cry; voices of suffering fill the wide sky; take as your neighbor both stranger and friend, praying and striving their hardship to end. 4 Wake, now, my conscience, with justice thy guide; join with all people whose rights are denied; take not for granted a privileged place; God’s love embraces the whole human race. 5 Wake, now, my vision of ministry clear; brighten my pathway with radiance here; mingle my calling with all who will share; work toward a planet transformed by our care. Used With Tune: SLANE
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A Fierce Unrest

Author: Don Marquis, 1878-1937 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: A fierce unrest seethes at the core Lyrics: 1 A fierce unrest seethes at the core of all existing things: it was the eager wish to soar that gave the gods their wings. There throbs through all the worlds that are this heartbeat hot and strong, and shaken systems, star by star, awake and glow in song. 2 But for the urge of this unrest these joyous spheres are mute; but for the rebel in our breast had we remained as brutes. When baffled lips demanded speech, speech trembled into birth; one day the lyric word shall reach from earth to laughing earth. 3 From deed to dream, from dream to deed, from daring hope to hope, the restless wish, the instant need, still drove us up the slope. Sing we no governed firmament, cold, ordered, regular; we sing the stinging discontent that leaps from star to star. Used With Tune: SALVATION

We Lift Our Hearts in Thanks

Author: Percival Chubb, 1860-1960 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Here and Now First Line: We lift our hearts in thanks today Used With Tune: PRAETORIUS
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This Old World

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: This old world is full of sorrow Lyrics: 1 This old world is full of sorrow, full of sickness, weak and sore; if you love your neighbor truly, love will come to you the more. 2 We’re all children of one family; we’re all brothers, sisters, too; if you cherish one another, love and friendship come to you. 3 This old world can be a garden, full of fragrance, full of grace; if we love our neighbors truly, we must meet them face to face. 4 It is said now, “Love thy neighbor,” and we know well that is true; this, the sum of human labor, true for me as well as you. Used With Tune: RESTORATION Text Sources: American folk tune, adapt.
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Here on the Paths of Every Day

Author: Edwin Markham, 1852-1940 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men Lyrics: 1 Here on the paths of every day — here on the common human way — is all the stuff the gods would take to build a heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours the task sublime to build eternity in time. 2 We need no other stones to build the temple of the unfulfilled — no other ivory for the doors — no other marble for the floors — no other cedar for the beam and dome of our immortal dream. Used With Tune: FILLMORE
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Once When My Heart Was Passion Free

Author: John B. Tabb, 1845-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Lyrics: 1 Once when my heart was passion free to learn of things divine, the soul of nature suddenly outpoured itself in mine. 2 I held the secrets of the deep and of the heavens above; I knew the harmonies of sleep, the mysteries of love. 3 And for a moment’s interval the earth, the sky, the sea — my soul encompassed each and all, as they encompass me. Used With Tune: PRIMROSE

De Colores

Author: David Arkin Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men First Line: All the colors (De colores) Refrain First Line: All the colors abound for the whole world around and for ev'ryone under the sun (Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi) Used With Tune: DE COLORES

The Ceaseless Flow of Endless Time

Author: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Here and Now Used With Tune: MCKEE
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O World, Thou Choosest Not the Better Part

Author: George Santayana, 1863-1952 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom First Line: O world, thou choosest not the better part! Lyrics: 1 O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, and on the inward vision close the eyes, but it is wisdom to believe the heart. To trust the soul’s invincible surmise is all of science and our only art. 2 Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine that lights the pathway but one step ahead across a void of mystery and dread. Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine by which alone the mortal heart is led unto the thinking of the thought divine. Used With Tune: SONG 1

Sing Out Praises for the Journey

Author: Mark M. DeWolfe, 1953-1988; Joyce Painter Rice Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY

I Seek the Spirit of a Child

Author: Carl G. Seaburg, 1932- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.9 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Insight and Wisdom Used With Tune: SUSSEX CAROL

Life Is the Greatest Gift of All

Author: William E. Oliver; Waldemar Hille, 1908- Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Humanist Teachings Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Used With Tune: BROTHER JAMES' AIR

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