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Hymn 222 Hymns for Living
Hush the Sounds of War
IRISH C.M.
O God! the darkness roll away
Which clouds the human soul,
And let thy bright and holy day
Speed onward to its goal!
Let every hateful passion die
Which makes of neighbours foes,
And war no longer raise its cry
To mar the world´s repose.
How long shall glory still be found
In scenes of cruel strife,
Where misery walks, a giant crowned,
Crushing the flowers of life?
O hush, great God, the sounds of war,
And make thy children feel
That one, with thee, is nobler far
Who toils for human weal.
Let faith, and hope, and charity
Go forth through all the earth;
And we in holy friendship be
True to our heavenly birth.
Hymn 224 Hymns for Living
A Glad, Resplendent Day
BATTLE HYMN 14 15 15.7 & Refrain
Mine eyes have seen the glory of a glad, resplendent day,
When the lords of war shall vanish with their blind and brutal sway,
As the women join in marching with their men on freedom´s way,
And the truth goes marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
As the truth goes marching on!
The people have awakened and their eyes must close no more,
They will burn the gibbets, sheathe the sword and still the drums of war,
They will bring the earth to blossom where the desert was before,
And the truth goes marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
As the truth goes marching on!
Hymn 226 Hymns for Living
Song of Peace
FINLANDIA 11 10.11 10. 11 10.
Jean Sibelius 1865-1957
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine;
This is my home, the country where my heart is,
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight beams on clover leaf and pine;
But other lands have sunlight, too, and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.
Hymn 73 Sing Your Faith
If Every Woman in the World
IF EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD
Karen MacKay, arranged Jerome Kyles
If ev'ry woman in the world had her mind set on freedom,
If eve'ry woman in the world dreamed a sweet dream of peace,
If ev'ry woman of ev'ry nation' young and old,
Each generation held her hands out -
In the name of love there would be no more war.
If ev'ry man in the world had his mind set on freedom,
If eve'ry brother stood with brother as a witness for peace,
If ev'ry man of ev'ry nation' young and old,
Each generation held her hands out -
In the name of love there would be no more war.
If ev'ry leader in the world shared a vision of freedom,
If eve'ry leader in the world shared a sweet dream of peace,
If ev'ry leader of ev'ry nation' worked for justice
And liberation holding hands out -
In the name of love there would be no more war.
If ev'ry nation in the world set a true course for freedom,
If eve'ry nation raised its children in a culture of peace,
If all our sons and all our daughters reached in friendship
Across the waters refusing
To be enemies there would be no more war.
Adrian Worsfold
Pluralist - Liberal and Thoughtful