531 SAMUEL 6.6.6.6.8.8

(J=108) Hushed was the evening hymn, The temple courts were dark; The

lamp was burn-ing dim Before the

2 The old man, meek and mild,
The priest of Israel, slept;
His watch the temple-child,

The little Levite, kept;
And what from Eli's sense was sealed,
The Lord to Hannah's son revealed.

3 Oh, give me Samuel's ear, The open ear, O Lord, Alive and quick to hear

Each whisper of Thy word! Like him to answer at Thy call, And to obey Thee first of all.

ARTHUR S. SULLIVAN

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ly a voice divine Rang thro' the silence of the shrine. A-men.

ark; When sudden

4 Oh, give me Samuel's heart,
A lowly heart, that waits
Where in Thy house Thou art,
Or watches at Thy gates!
By day and night, a heart- that still
Moves at the breathing of Thy will.

5 Oh, give me Samuel's mind,

A sweet, unmurmuring faith,
Obedient and resigned

To Thee in life and death!
That I may read with childlike eyes
Truths that are hidden from the wise.
Amen.
JAMES D. BURNS

532 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL C. M. D.

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(J=120) O beau-ti - ful for spacious skies, For am-ber waves of grain, For pur- ple

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mountain maj-es-ties A-bove the fruit-ful plain! A- mer-i-ca!

CLARENCE G. HAMILTON

(May be sung to Materna, No. 475)

2 O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!

God mend thy every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

3 O beautiful for glorious tale,
Of liberating strife,

When valiently, for man's avail,
Men lavished precious life!

God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with broth-er-hood From sea to

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shin-ing sea! And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shin-ing sea! A-men.

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America!

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America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine.

4 O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,

And, moved by human tears!
America! America!

God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea. Amen.

536 BATTLE HYMN Irregular

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(J=100) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com-ing

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truth is march - ing on.

ful light - ning of His ter- ri

the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

JOHN W. STEFFE

of the Lord;

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ble swift sword;