So may the Great Name be blessed, through every Mystery and Mastery of every universe.
May Your Name be blessed and celebrated, Its beauty honored and raised high, may It be lifted and carried, may Its radiance be praised in all Its Holiness ---- Blessed be!
Even though we cannot give You enough blessing, enough song, enough praise, enough consolation to match what we wish to lay before you --
And though we know that today there is no way to console You when among us some who bear Your Image in our being are killing others who bear Your Image in our being ---
Still we yearn that from the unity of Your Great Name will come to flow a great and joyful harmony and life for all of us. (Cong: Amein)
You who make harmony in the ultimate reaches of the universe, teach us to make harmony within our selves, among ourselves -- and shalom, salaam, pax, peace for all who dwell upon this planet. (Cong: Amein)
Oseh Shalom bim'romav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu v'al kol yisrael v'al kol yishmael v'al kol yoshvei tevel -- v'imru: Amein.
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Never Turn Back (traditionally sung standing). You can hear it sung at --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-vUQHbevhM
We've been 'buked and we've been scorned,
We've been talked about, sure 's you're born.
But we'll never turn back,
No, we 'll never turn back
Until we all have been freed.
And we'll have equality.
We have hung our heads and cried,
Cried for the ones who had to die,
Died for you and died for me,
Died for the cost of equality.
But we'll never turn back
Until we all have been freed
And we'll have equality.
No, we'll never turn back,
No, we'll never turn back.
["Lift Every Voice and Sing" was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900, by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School. Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words. Several years later, the NAACP proclaimed it the "Negro National Anthem." Traditionally, it is sung standing. The melody, created by James Weldon Johnson's brother John, is sung at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Bn7kPkLo
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
let our rejoicing rise,
high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea
sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us,
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of a
new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
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