O Brother Man

Words: John Greenleaf Whittier  

Music:     E. Cooper Perry
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 1  O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother;
    Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
    To worship rightly is to love each other,
    Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

 2  For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
    The holier worship which He deigns to bless
    Restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
    And feeds the widow and the fatherless.

 3  Follow with reverent steps the great example
    Of Him Whose holy work was doing good;
    So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
    Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

 4  Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor
    Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
    Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
    And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

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