Dear Lord and Father of Mankind =============================== w: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872 m: Frederick C. Maker, 1887 Tune: Rest Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Alternate Tune: Repton (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1888) [ Verse 1] Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways! Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper rev'rence, praise, in deeper rev'rence, praise. {Verse 2] In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up and follow thee, rise up and follow thee. [Verse 3] O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity interpreted by love! Interpreted by love! [Verse 4] Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace, the beauty of thy peace. [Verse 5] Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm, O still, small voice of calm.