O Brother Man (John Greenleaf Whittier)

“O Brother Man” Sheet Music (pdf).
“O Brother Man” Karaoke (midi with lyrics).

Lyrics: John Greenleaf Whittier.
Tune: C. Hubert H. Parry.


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.

Follow with rev’rent 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 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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