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Lift Every Voice and Sing
Author: James Weldon Johnson Meter: Irregular Appears in 50 hymnals Topics: Nation Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty;
let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies,
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;
we have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
thou who hast by thy might led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
Used With Tune: LIFT EVERY VOICE
Lift Every Voice and Sing
All Hail, America
Author: Walter E. Schuette Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: National; Processionals and Recessionals National First Line: This is the day we celebrate Lyrics: 1 This is the day we celebrate,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
God builds the nation strong and great,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
Columbia praise His mighty name,
Ye sons of freedom, shout acclaim,
And set His altars all aflame
For Free America.
2 O it is meet to swell the song,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
The sounding chorus to prolong,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
In God the land is all at rest,
Its cities safe, its furrows blest,--
The heavens shower down their best
For Free America.
3 We praise the Lord with gladsome joy,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
His honor shall our lips employ,
All hail, America! (all hail!)
America's ten-thousand tongues
Shall fill His courts with soulful songs,
To whom the honor all belongs,
For Free America.
4 Long may His goodness lead our land;
All hail, America! (all hail!)
Long may we trust His faithful hand;
All hail, America! (all hail!)
O may we never see the day
When from His care we go astray,
And may He ever show the way
For Free America. Used With Tune: LIEFELD
All Hail, America
Thanksgiving for victory over our enemies
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: National prayer and praise; Thanksgiving for national Victory First Line: To thee, who reign'st supreme above Lyrics: 1 To thee, who reign'st supreme above,
And reign's supreme below,
Thou God of wisdom, power, and love,
We our successes owe.
2 The thundering horse, the martial band,
Without thine aid were vain;
And victory flies at thy command
To crown the bright campaign.
3 Thy mighty arm, unseen, was nigh,
When we our foes assail'd;
'Tis thou hast rais'd our honors high,
And o'er their hosts prevail'd.
4 Their mounds, their camps, their lofty towers
Into our hands are given,
Not from desert or strength of ours,
But thro' the grace of heaven.
5 What tho' no columns lifted high
Stand deep inscrib'd with praise,
Yet sounding honors to the sky
Our grateful tongues shall raise.
6 To our young race will we proclaim
The mercies God has shown;
That they may learn to bless his name,
And choose him for their own.
7 Thus while we sleep in silent dust,
When threatening dangers come,
Their father's God shall be their trust,
Their refuge and their home.
Thanksgiving for victory over our enemies
All Ye Who on This Earth do Dwell
Author: Paul Gerhardt; Alfred Ramsey, d. 1926 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Times and Seasons The Nation Lyrics: 1 All ye who on this earth do dwell,
Give thanks and glorify
The Lord whose praises ever swell
In seraph songs on high.
2 Lift up your hearts in praise to God,
Himself best Gift of all,
Who works His wonders all abroad,
Upholding great and small.
3 Since first our life began to be,
He has preserved our frame;
And when man's strength was vanity,
He as our Helper came.
4 Though often we His patience try
And well deserve His frown,
In grace He lays His anger by
And pours new blessings down.
5 'Tis He revives our fainting soul,
Gives joyful hearts to men;
And when great waves of trouble roll,
He drives them back again.
6 May He adorn with precious peace
Our own, our native, land
And crown with joys that never cease
The labors of our hand!
7 Long as we tarry here below
Our saving Health is He;
And when from earth to heaven we go,
May He our Prtion be!
Amen.
Scripture: Sirach 50:22-24 Used With Tune: NUN DANKET ALL'
All Ye Who on This Earth do Dwell
The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor (Psalm 82)
Author: John B. Foley, SJ Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: The Life of the Nations First Line: The Lord hears the cry of the poor Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: THE CRY OF THE POOR
The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor (Psalm 82)
Your kingdom come, O God!
Author: L. Hensley (1824-1905) Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 132 hymnals Topics: God's World Nations, Justice, and Peace Lyrics: 1 Your kingdom come, O God!
your rule, O Christ, begin;
break with thine iron rod
the tyrannies of sin,
2 Where is your reign of peace
and purity and love?
When shall all hatred cease,
as in the realms above?
3 When comes the promised time,
the end of strife and war;
when lust, oppression, crime
and greed shall be no more?
4 O Lord our God, arise
and come in your great might!
revive our longing eyes
which languish for your sight.
5 As rebels scorn your name
and wolves devour your fold,
by many deeds of shame
we learn that love grows cold.
6 On nations near or far
thick darkness gathers yet:
arise, O Morning Star,
arise and never set! Used With Tune: ST. CECILIA
Your kingdom come, O God!
God! As with Silent Hearts
Author: Fred Kaan Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind Lyrics: 1 God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind
how hate and war diminish humankind,
we pause, and seek in worship to increase
our knowledge of the things that make for peace.
2 Hallow our will as humbly we recall
the lives of those who gave and give their all.
We thank you, Lord, for women, children, men
who seek to serve in love, today as then.
3 Give us deep faith to comfort those who mourn,
high hope to share with all the newly born,
strong love in our pursuit of human worth:
"lest we forget" the future of this earth.
4 So, Prince of Peace, disarm our trust in power,
teach us to coax the plant of peace to flower.
May we, impassioned by your living Word,
remember forward to a world restored. Used With Tune: ST AGNES (LANGRAN)
God! As with Silent Hearts
Publish glad tidings, tidings of peace
Author: Mary A. Thomson, 1834-1923 Appears in 469 hymnals Topics: National and World Peace First Line: O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling Scripture: Romans 10:13-16 Used With Tune: TIDINGS
Publish glad tidings, tidings of peace
Psalm 124
Meter: 10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Nation and Society First Line: Now Israel may say, and that truly Lyrics: 1 Now Israel may say, and that truly,
if that the Lord had not our cause maintained;
if that the Lord had not our right sustained,
when cruel men against us furiously
rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey;
2 Then certainly they had devoured us all,
and swallowed quick, for aught that we could deem;
such was their rage, as we might well esteem.
And as fierce floods before them all things drown,
so had they brought our soul to death quite down.
3 The raging streams, with their proud swelling waves,
had then our soul o'erwhelmèd in the deep.
But blest be God, who doth us safely keep,
and hath not given us for a living prey
unto their teeth, and bloody cruelty.
4 Even as a bird out of the fowler's snare
escapes away, so is our soul set free:
broke are their nets, and thus escapèd we.
Therefore our help is in the Lord's great Name,
who heaven and earth by his great power did frame. Scripture: Psalm 124 Used With Tune: OLD 124TH Text Sources: The Scottish Psalter, 1929
Psalm 124
My Lord, What a Morning
Meter: Irregular Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: You'll hear the trumpet sound Lyrics: Refrain:
My Lord, what a morning.
my Lord, what a morning.
My Lord, what a morning
when the stars begin to fall.
1 You'll hear the trumpet sound,
to wake the nations underground,
looking to my God's right hand,
when the stars begin to fall. [Refrain]
2 You’ll hear the sinner cry,
to wake the nations underground,
looking to my God’s right hand,
when the stars begin to fall. [Refrain]
3 You’ll hear the Christian shout,
to wake the nations underground,
looking to my God’s right hand,
when the stars begin to fall. [Refrain] Used With Tune: BURLEIGH Text Sources: African-American spiritual
My Lord, What a Morning
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