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"Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind"
Words, MIDI Music, MP3 Reading of Lyrics
and Printed Four-Part Hymnal Music

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Words by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872; music by Frederick C. Maker, 1887 (hymn tune REST, aka ELTON, aka REST OF ELTON). The MIDI sequence is Public Domain, by a person unknown to me, obtained from DigitalHymnal.org


MIDI music file at http://www.loveallpeople.org/rest.mid - (Public Domain)
MP3 file of the music at http://www.loveallpeople.org/dearlordandfather.mp3 - (Public Domain)

MP3 Readings Of The Poem (Both are Public Domain)
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    DEAR LORD AND FATHER OF MANKIND
      by John Greenleaf Whittier   
           Public Domain


Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise. 

In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise up and follow thee. 

O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity
Interpreted by love ! 

With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper of thy call,
As noiseless let thy blessing fall
As fell thy manna down. 

Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace. 

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
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Words by John Greenleaf Whitter, from his poem "The Brewing Of Soma," as published in his book, THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, AND OTHER POEMS, published by J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872.

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