Music for Ukraine - Day 18

Of all our Leader's poems that have been set to music, perhaps "Christ My Refuge" offer the most spiritual insights into the situation in Ukraine.

Dick Frantzreb

http://www.vocal-works.com/sounds/Solo_bank/140904CG.mp3 
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Christ My Refuge
 

Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Frederick W. Root

O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,

And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
With love perfumed.

Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life's burdens light.
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.

And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk.

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life's shore,
'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
Oh, nevermore!

From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee, —
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.

My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.

Copyright 1908 by Trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy

Accompaniment by Tom Barr

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