Text:Fold to your heart your sister and your brother
Author:John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-92
Tune:INTERCESSOR
Composer:Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1848-1918

587. 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.

2 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.

3 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.

4 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, 1807-92 (alt.)
Meter: 11 10.11 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Freedom; Mercy of God; Ministry of God's People (3 more...)
Tune Information
Name: INTERCESSOR
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1848-1918
Meter: 11 10.11 10
Key: g minor



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