The Tree of Peace - c.1944

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

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.

For he whom Jesus loved hath 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.

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.

Then shall all shackles fall;
the stormy clangour
Of wild warmusic 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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The Tree Of Peace c.1935
Music by A. E. Floyd
Words by J. G. Whittier
copyright by composer
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed on Thursday 03 Jan 2001 at 08.05
in association with Doug Grierson
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