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The Morning Hangs a Signal
Author: William Channing Gannett, 1840-1923 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #40 (1993) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: The Living Tradition Lyrics: 1 The morning hangs a signal
upon the mountain crest,
while all the sleeping valleys
in silent darkness rest.
From peak to peak it flashes,
it laughs along the sky,
till glory of the sunlight
on all the land shall lie.
2 Above the generations
the lonely prophets rise,
while truth flares as the daystar
within their glowing eyes;
and other eyes, beholding,
are kindled from that flame;
and dawn becomes the morning,
when prophets love proclaim.
3 The soul has lifted moments,
above the drift of days,
when life’s great meaning breaketh
in sunrise on our ways.
Behold the radiant token
of faith above all fear;
night shall release its splendor
that morning shall appear. Languages: English Tune Title: MEIRIONYDD
The Morning Hangs a Signal
No Number Tallies Nature Up
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #79 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: The Living Tradition Lyrics: 1 No number tallies nature up,
no tribe its house can fill;
it is the shining fount of life
and pours the deluge still.
And gathers by its fragile powers
along the centuries
from race on race the rarest flowers,
its wreath shall nothing miss.
2 It writes the past in characters
of rock and fire and scroll,
the building in the coral sea,
the planting of the coal.
And thefts from satellites and rings
and broken stars it drew,
and out of spent and aged things
it formed the world anew.
3 Must time and tide forever run,
nor winds sleep in the west?
Will never wheels which whirl the sun
and satellites have rest?
Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more,
and mix the bowl again;
seethe, Fate, the ancient elements,
heat, cold, and peace, and pain.
4 Blend war and trade and creeds
and song, let ripen race on race,
the sunburnt world that we shall breed
of all the countless days.
No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,
the oldest force is new,
and fresh the rose on yonder thorn
gives back the heavens in dew. Languages: English Tune Title: RESIGNATION
No Number Tallies Nature Up
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #244 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: The Living Tradition Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear,
that glorious song of old,
from angels bending near the earth,
to touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, to all good will,
from heaven the news we bring."
The world in solemn stillness lay
to hear the angels sing.
2 Still through the cloven skies they come,
with peaceful wings unfurled;
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lowly plains
they bend on hovering wing;
and ever o'er its Babel sounds
the blessed angels sing.
3 But with the woes of war and strife
the world has suffered long;
beneath the angel-strain have rolled
two thousand years of wrong;
and we who fight the wars hear not
the love song which they bring.
O hush the noise of battle strife,
and hear the angels sing.
4 For, lo! the days are hastening on,
by prophet bards foretold,
when with the ever-circling years
comes round the age of gold:
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world give back the song
which now the angels sing. Languages: English Tune Title: CAROL
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
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