Three Sacred Songs

All people of the earth
Share in one common birth
One common destiny
One sun shines o'er us all,
Alike we rise and fall
One night will spread its pall
Eternally.

Great God of the earth,
Lead us to know the worth of sympathy
May fellowship increase,
May all contention cease
O may we dwell in peace and unity.

Dear Master, in whose life I see
All  ...  I would, but fail to be;
Let Thy clear light forever shine,
To shame and guide this life of mine.

Through what I dream and what I do
In my weak days are always two,
Help me, oppressed by things undone,
O Thou, whose deeds and dreams were one!

Life of ages, richly poured,
Love of God, unspent and free,
Flowing in the prophet’s word,
And the people’s liberty;

Breathing in the thinker’s creed;
Pulsing in the hero’s blood;
Nerving simplest thought and deed;
Freshening time with truth and good;

Consecrating art and song,
Holy book and pilgrim track;
Hurling floods of tyrants wrong
From the sacred limits back—

Life of ages, richly poured,
Love of God, unspent and free,
Flow still in the prophet’s word,
And the people’s liberty!