To stand for all Creation (Sophia Green)
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- (Posted 2021-07-30) CPDL #65315:
- Editor: Sophia Green (submitted 2021-07-30). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 734 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: "To Stand for all Creation" is a new spiritual and religious carol, appropriate for Christmas-time, Yuletide, or the end of the year, meant to address current spiritual need. Its setting is the melody of the traditional Latin hymn "Adeste Fideles".
General Information
Title: To Stand for all Creation
Composer: Sophia Green
Lyricist: Sophia Green
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2020
Description: "To Stand for all Creation" is a new spiritual and religious carol, appropriate for Christmas-time, Yuletide, or the end of the year, meant to address current spiritual need. Its setting is the melody of the traditional Latin hymn Adeste fideles (Traditional), known in English as O come, all ye faithful.
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Original text and translations
English text
1 O come, all ye faithful, fearful yet courageous!
O come, we as one brave-hearted our fate must face!
Come we together, resolute through peril,
to stand for all Creation (3x)
Earth's hope to hold!
2 Grow, trees and bushes, flowers, grasses, rushes!
Grow from rich soil to keep Earth breathing anew!
Your fruits do feed us, your deep roots so need us
to stand for all Creation (3x)
Earth's hope to hold!
3 Blow, breath of Heaven, wind of transformation!
Blow 'way all currents stifling Life's precious air!
Breathe through our body, Breath of Life and Spirit
to stand for all Creation (3x)
Earth's hope to hold!
4 Flow, precious water, balm of Terra Mater!
Flow o'er the earth, rejoin the great sea of Life!
Rivers feed oceans, birds and fish us motion
to stand for all Creation (3x)
Earth's hope to hold!
5 Whale, bear and raptor, all Man's kin in Nature!
Humbly concede we now our shared earthly home!
One, all, and Nation, vowing reparation
to stand for all Creation (3x)
Earth's hope to hold!