Thy Sea is Great, Our Boats are Small, and Other Hymns of To-Day

Name: Thy Sea is Great, Our Boats are Small, and Other Hymns of To-Day
Author: Van Dyke, Henry

Van Dyke, Henry

Hymns

Thou art giving and forgiving,
    Ever blessing, ever blest,
  Well-spring of the joy of living,
    Ocean-depth of happy rest.
  Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,—
    All who live in love are Thine:
  Teach us how to love each other,
    Lift us to the Joy Divine.

  Mortals join the mighty chorus,
    Which the morning stars began;
  Father-love is reigning o’er us,
    Brother-love binds man to man.
  Ever singing march we onward,
    Victors in the midst of strife;
  Joyful music lifts us sunward
    In the triumph song of life.

  8.7.8.7.D
  Music from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.




                       PEACE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC


  O Lord, our God, Thy mighty hand
    Hath made our country free;
  From all her broad and happy land
    May praise arise to Thee.
  Fulfil the promise of her youth,
    Her liberty defend;
  By law and order, love and truth,
    America befriend!

  The strength of every state increase
    In Union’s golden chain;
  Her thousand cities fill with peace,
    Her million fields with grain.
  The virtues of her mingled blood
    In one new people blend;
  By unity and brotherhood
    America befriend!

  O suffer not her feet to stray;
    But guide her untaught might,
  That she may walk in peaceful day,
    And lead the world in light.
  Bring down the proud, lift up the poor,
    Unequal ways amend;
  By justice, nation-wide and sure,
    America befriend!

  Through all the waiting land proclaim
    Thy gospel of good-will;
  And may the music of Thy name
    In every bosom thrill.
  O’er hill and vale, from sea to sea,
    Thy holy reign extend;
  By faith and hope and charity,
    America befriend!

  C.M.D.
  Materna.




                          Transcriber’s Notes


--Copyright notices preserved from printed edition (this text is
  public-domain in the country of publication)

--Page scans generously made available by the Internet Archive,
  http://archive.org/details/thyseaiOOvand

--Provided MIDI transcriptions for suggested tunes (all, of course,
  pre-1922).







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