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It Is Something to Have Wept
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874-1936 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #5 (1993) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life First Line: It is something to have wept as we have wept Lyrics: 1 It is something to have wept as we have wept,
and something to have done as we have done;
it is something to have watched when all have slept,
and seen the stars which never see the sun.
2 It is something to have smelt the mystic rose,
although it break and leave the thorny rods;
it is something to have hungered once as those
must hunger who have ate the bread of gods:
3 To have known the things that from the weak are furled,
the fearful ancient passions, strange and high;
it is something to be wiser than the world,
and something to be older than the sky.
4 Lo, and blessed are our ears for they have heard:
yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen:
let the thunder break on human, beast, and bird,
and lightning. It is something to have been. Languages: English Tune Title: KEITH
It Is Something to Have Wept
The Leaf Unfurling
Author: Don Cohen, 1946- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #7 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life First Line: The leaf unfurling in the April air Languages: English Tune Title: ALL LIFE IS ONE
The Leaf Unfurling
Mother Spirit, Father Spirit
Author: Norbert F. Cǎpek, 1870-1942; Paul Munk; Anita Munk; Richard Frederick Boeke, 1931- Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #8 (1993) Meter: 8.3.8.3.8.3 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life Languages: English Tune Title: MĀTI SVETA
Mother Spirit, Father Spirit
No Longer Forward nor Behind
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #9 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6.6.8.8.6 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life Lyrics: 1 No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
but, grateful, take the good I find,
the best of now and here.
I break my pilgrim staff,
I lay aside the toiling oar;
the angel sought so far away
I welcome at my door.
2 For all the jarring notes of life
seem blending in a psalm,
and all the angles of its strife
slow rounding into calm.
And so the shadows fall apart,
and so the west winds play;
and all the windows of my heart
I open to the day. Languages: English Tune Title: VAN DIEMAN'S LAND
No Longer Forward nor Behind
Immortal Love
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #10 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life First Line: Immortal love, forever full Lyrics: 1 Immortal love, forever full,
forever flowing free,
forever shared, forever whole,
a never-ending sea!
2 Our outward lips confess the name
all other names above;
but love alone knows whence it came
and comprehendeth love.
3 Blow, winds of love, awake and blow
the mists of hate away:
sing out, O Truth divine, and tell
how wide and far we stray.
4 The letter fails, the systems fall,
and every symbol wanes;
the Spirit over-seeing all,
Eternal Love, remains. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. COLUMBA
Immortal Love
O God of Stars and Sunlight
Author: John Holmes, 1904-1962 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #11 (1993) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life Languages: English Tune Title: BREMEN
O God of Stars and Sunlight
O Life That Maketh All Things New
Author: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #12 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life Lyrics: 1 O Life that maketh all things new,
the blooming earth, our thoughts within,
our pilgrim feet, wet with thy dew,
in gladness hither turn again.
2 From hand to hand the greeting flows,
from eye to eye the signals run,
from heart to heart the bright hope glows,
the seekers of the light are one:
3 One in the freedom of the truth,
one in the joy of paths untrod,
one in the soul’s perennial youth,
one in the larger thought of God;
4 The freer step, the fuller breath,
the wide horizon’s grander view,
the sense of life that knows no death,
the Life that maketh all things new. Languages: English Tune Title: TRURO
O Life That Maketh All Things New
Songs of Spirit
Author: Marion Franklin Ham, 1868-1956 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #13 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life First Line: Songs of spirit, like a prayer Lyrics: 1 Songs of spirit, like a prayer
breathing in the ambient air;
singing in the morning light,
in the radiance of the day,
in the twilight shadows gray,
in the brooding hush of night;
dark or light, or storm, or fair —
singing, singing everywhere.
2 In the burgeoning of spring,
in the summer’s scented bloom,
in the autumn’s mellow glow,
in the winter’s ice and snow;
shade, or shine, or joy, or gloom,
as the seasons come and go,
break and bare, or blossoming —
still the songs that sing and sing!
3 Singing, singing everywhere,
at the heart of everything,
in my soul I hear them sing;
mystic music of the spheres;
songs that, with my utmost art,
I can only catch in part;
broken echoes, cold and bare,
of the songs my spirit hears. Languages: English Tune Title: SERVETUS
Songs of Spirit
The Lone, Wild Bird
Author: H. R. MacFayden, 1877-1964 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #15 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life First Line: The lone, wild bird in lofty flight Lyrics: 1 The lone, wild bird in lofty flight
is still with thee, nor leaves thy sight.
And I am thine! I rest in thee.
Great spirit come and rest in me.
2 The ends of earth are in thy hand,
the sea’s dark deep and far-off land.
And I am thine! I rest in thee.
Great spirit come and rest in me. Languages: English Tune Title: PROSPECT
The Lone, Wild Bird
'Tis a gift to Be Simple
Author: Joseph Bracket, 18th cent. Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #16 (1993) Meter: Irregular with refrain Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder The Celebration of Life Lyrics: ‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
‘tis a gift to come down where we ought to be,
and when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed.
To turn, turn will be our delight,
'till by turning, turning we come ’round right. Languages: English Tune Title: SIMPLE GIFTS
'Tis a gift to Be Simple
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