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Text: | They Cast Their Nets in Galilee |
Author: | William Alexander Percy |
Tune: | GEORGETOWN |
Composer: | David McK. Williams |
1 They cast their nets in Galilee
Just off the hills of brown;
Such happy, simple fisher-folk,
Before the Lord came down.
2 Contented, peaceful fishermen,
Before they ever knew
The peace of God that filled their hearts
Brimful, and broke them too.
3 Young John who trimmed the flapping sail,
Homeless, in Patmos died.
Peter, who hauled the teeming net,
Head down was crucified.
4 The peace of God, it is no peace,
But strife closed in the sod.
Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing--
The marvelous peace of God.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | They cast their nets in Galilee |
Title: | They Cast Their Nets in Galilee |
Author: | William Alexander Percy (1924; alt.) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Discipleship; Peace, Spiritual; Stewardship(1 more...) |
Copyright: | Words copyright, 1924. Used by permission of LeRoy P. Percy. |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GEORGETOWN |
Composer: | David McK. Williams (1941) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Music copyright, 1943, by The Church Pension Fund. Used by permission. |