590a. Fold to your heart your sister and your brother

1 Fold to your heart your sister and your brother:
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
to worship rightly and to love each other,
each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
the holier worship which He deigns to bless
restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
and feeds the widow and the fatherless.

2 Follow with reverent steps the great example
of Him whose holy work was doing good:
so shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
Then shall all shackles fall: the stormy clangour
of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

Text Information
First Line: Fold to your heart your sister and your brother
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892
Meter: 11 10 11 10 D
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Tune Information
Name: LONDONDERRY AIR
Arranger: John Barnard, b. 1948
Meter: 11 10 11 10 D
Key: C Major
Source: Irish traditional melody
Copyright: Arr. © John Barnard / Jubilate Hymns



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