Across the summer meadows fair,
there comes a song of fervent prayer;
It rises radiantly o'er the world,
Exulting, exulting, in the power of God!
Exalting Faith in life above
but humbly yielding, yielding to His love.

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• by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "The camp-meeting", 1912.
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