Let all the world sing

Let all the world sing

Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King ! The church with psalms must shout, No door can keep them out ; But above all the heart Must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King !   George Herbert...
At heaven’s gate at break of day

At heaven’s gate at break of day

At heaven’s gate, at break of day, Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think of thee – and then my state (like the lark at break of day arising from sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate ; for thy sweet love remembered such wealth...
God’s Music: Now and Then

God’s Music: Now and Then

Since I am coming to that holy room Where with thy choir of saints for evermore I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.   While my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers,...
Lighten our darkness

Lighten our darkness

Our church generation Out of his spacious, gracious splendour, They prized God and forced Him into their time; And they surrounded and hymned him, So that he all but disappeared Into their darkness.   Ranier Maria Rilke...