O Baha’u’llah

O Baha’u’llah (repeat 3 times)

Bring us together in unity (O ya!)

Bring us together as one family

We are all waves of one sea

We are all leaves of one tree

We are flowers of one garden

Chorus:

Bring us together in unity

Bring us together as one family

Singing:  O Baha’u’llah (repeat 3 times)

Bring us together in unity (O ya!)

Bring us together as one family

Darkness has fallen upon land

Evil tries to force our hand

United in God together we stand

Chorus:

Bring us together in unity

Bring us together as one family

Singing:  O Baha’u’llah (repeat 3 times)

Bring us together in unity (O ya!)

Bring us together as one family

We are angles of fire and snow

We see the light and way we go

Spreading the message to one and all

Chorus:

Bring us together in unity

Bring us together as one family

Singing:  O Baha’u’llah (repeat 3 times)

Bring us together in unity (O ya!)

Bring us together as one family

Chorus:

Bring us together in unity

Bring us together as one family

Singing:  O Baha’u’llah (repeat 3 times)

Bring us together in unity (O ya!)

Bring us together as one family

Gonda -- by Joany Lincoln

Keep the Life Blood Flowing

Baha'u'llah -- a poem by Thornton Chase

I.

O Light Divine Invisible!

   Immeasurable Light!

Eternal as Divinity!

   lmpenetrably Bright!

The living universe bows down

   And veils its face before Thee.

All angels and archangels bend

   And happily adore Thee.

II.

O Shining Spirit! Light of Light!

   All-flooding, radiant beam,

Eternally proceeding

   Forth from Him, the Lord Supreme;

To all immensity of life,

   Himself Thou art revealing;

With Thine intensity of light,

   Himself Thou art concealing.

III.

He is the Essence, Thou the Power,

   The Glory, Majesty.

The Omnipresence. He, Unknown

   And Nameless, save for Thee!

Above all height and depth is He,

   In His own SELF abiding;

Through Thee all depth and height He fills.

   Through Thee Creation guiding.

IV.

As light from flame, Thou art from Him;

   As fragrance from the flower;

As colors from the prism'd light;

   As rainbow from the shower;

As thought from mind; or word from thought;

   As deed by vision guided.

So He and Thou art only ONE.

   Not dual, nor divided.

The Queen of Carmel

Allah-Homma Yah Sohboohone

I Have Found Baha'u'llah

Words by Baha'is of Botswana
Arrangement by Conrad Lambert



I have found Baha’u’llah

In the early days of my life

I will keep Him in my heart

And stay with Him for ever

Re-monye Baha’u’llah

Mo molatsing a ho hola

Retla sala naye

Allah’u’Abha, Allah’u’Abha

Allah’u’Abha, Allah’u’Abha

Recognition – a poem by George Townshend

Hail to Thee, Scion of Glory, Whose utterance

poureth abroad

The joy of the heavenly knowledge and the light

of the greatest of days!

Poet of mysteries chanting in rapture the beauty of

God,

   Unto Thee be thanksgiving and praise!

Child of the darkness that wandered in gloom but

dreamed of the light,

Lo! I have seen Thy splendour ablaze in the heavens

afar

Showering gladness and glory and shattering the

shadows of night,

   And see no other star.

Thy words are to me as fragrances borne from the

garden of heaven,

Beams of a lamp that is hid in the height of a holier

world,

Arrows of fire that pierce and destroy with the might

of the levin

   Into our darkness hurled.

Sword of the Father! none other can rend the dark

veil from my eyes,

None other can beat from my limbs with the shearing

blade of God's might

The sins I am fettered withal and give me the power

to rise

   And come forth to the fulness of light.

Lo! Thou hast breathed on my sorrow the sweetness

of faith and of hope,

Thou hast chanted high paeans of joy that my heart's

echoes ever repeat

And the path to the knowledge of God begins to

glimmer and ope

   Before my faltering feet.

Weak and unworthy my praise. Yet, as from its

throbbing throat

Some lone bird pours its song to the flaming infinite

sky,

So unto Thee in the zenith I lift from a depth remote

   This broken human cry.

(The Baha’i World, 1930-1932)

World, World, World

English:

World, World, World, World,

Why do you reject your Lord?

When will you receive your Savior.

Baha’u’llah?

Peace, Peace, Peace, Peace,

This is what we're waiting for,

Love shall conquer all the hatred,

Baha’u’llah!

Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy,

Inside of every man

If he only would discover

Baha’u’llah!

Love, love, love, love

People please hear the call

Love your neighbor as yourself

For God loves us all.

Spanish:

Mundo, Mundo, Mundo, Mundo,

Porque rechaza a tu Senor?

Cuando recibira a tu salvador,

Baha’u’llah?

Paz, Paz, Paz, Paz,

Todos esperamos al la paz,

El amor conquista mejor,

Baha’u’llah!

Fe-li-ci-dad,

Dentro de cada quien,

Si solo descubriera,

Baha’u’llah!

Mundo, Mundo, Mundo, Mundo,

Todo ya se cumplio.

El Principe de Paz ya llego,

Baha’u’llah, Baha’u’llah.

Happy Ayyám-i-Há Album – side 2

Contains:

1. God Loves the Best of Us

2. Khanum

3. The Abha Kingdom

4. Oh ‘Abdu’l-Baha

5. Blesses is the Spot

God Loves the Best of Us

Music & Lyrics by Jody King

Performed by Joshua Seals

God loves the best of us

God loves the worst of us

God loves the rest of us

no matter who you are

Hello teacher, hello clerk

hello lawyer and soda jerk

hello teacher of

   nursery rhymes

we gotta get busy

   and serve mankind

God loves the best of us

God loves the worst of us

God loves the rest of us

no matter who you are

When we're loving,

   when we share

it makes us happy

   because we care

so spread God's Love

   and obey His will

we all have a cup to fill

God loves the best of us

God loves the worst of us

God loves the rest of us

no matter who you are

Hello England, hello Greece

hello America,

   we wish you peace

hello Guam and Mexico

we all have a long way to grow

God loves the best of us

God loves the worst of us

God loves the rest of us

no matter who you are

Yeah

Happy Ayyám-i-Há Album -- side 1

Contains:

1. O God! Educate These Children
2. The Ayyám-i-Há Song
3. Here Am I
4. The Báb

The Ayyám-i-Há Song

Music and Lyrics by Daniel Deardorff

Performed by Naimeh Heath & Daniel Deardorff

I will buy you a present,

you will bake me a pie

then we'll open the presents

and all get starry-eyed.

Then we’ll stand around the

ring all holding hands

for Ayyám-i-Há’s the gift

of God to man.

I will bake you some cookies,

you will paint them bright

to celebrate spring's coming,

to melt the snow and ice.

Then we'll stand around the

ring all holding hands

for Ayyám-i-Há’s the gift

of God to man.

A yyám-i-Há’s the gift

of God to man

and in the spirit of His giving

we try to understand

Ayyám-i-Há

the gift of God to man.

Then we'll stand around the

ring all holding hands

for Ayyám-i-Há’s the gift

of God to man.

Ayyám-i-Há’s the gift

of God to man

and in the spirit of His giving

we try to understand

Ayyám-i-Há

The gift of God to man.

Fort Tabarsí

Fort Tabarsí they rode, they rode

From Fort Tabarsí they rode

Chorus:

They raised the clarion-call

Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán, Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán!

For the glory of God, they raised the cry

Yá Alí'u'l-Alláh, Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!

Zanján they rode, they rode, they rode

From Zanján they rode, they rode

Chorus:

They raised the clarion-call

Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán, Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán!

For the glory of God, they raised the cry

Yá Alí'u'l-Alláh, Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!

Nayríz they rode, they rode, they rode

From Nayríz they rode, they rode

Chorus:

They raised the clarion-call

Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán, Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán!

For the glory of God, they raised the cry

Yá Alí'u'l-Alláh, Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!

Mount your steeds, O heroes of God!

Mount your steeds, O men!

And raise the clarion-call

Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán, Yá Sá'hibuz-Zamán!

For the glory of God, they raised the cry

Yá Alí'u'l-Alláh, Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!
Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá, Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!

Ye are Drops

Ye are drops (ye are drops) echo voice

Of one ocean (of one ocean)

Ye are leaves (ye are leaves)

Of one tree (of one tree)

Come and join us (come and join us)

In our quest for unity

It’s a way of life for you and me.

All the earth is (all the earth is)

But one country (but one country)

Man is one (man is one)

Can’t you see (can’t you see)

Come and join us (come and join us)

In our quest for unity

It’s a way of life for you and me.

The Message -- a poem by Louis G. Gregory

The Báb

O Herald of the King of Kings

From Whom creation's power springs

The mission thine to blaze the way

Which leads to realms of endless day;

To be thyself the mystic sign

Of perfect love and power divine;

To resurrect the souls of men

And wealth devise beyond our ken.

Thy shining form was sometimes sad

Yet still thou mad'st creation glad;

Through martyrdom did'st plant the seeds

Which fructified in wondrous deeds.

Grant all, through deeds without desire

To witness thy celestial fire.

Bahá’u’lláh

O manifested Sun of Man

Thy sheen the reign of peace began.

Thine exile proved to man his home.

Thy shackles freed the souls to roam

The universe of God's great love

Directed by the Heavenly Dove.

The kings, their homage due to thee,

Enthroned, etherial majesty,

Shall bring the treasures of the earth

Memorial to thy cycle's birth.

The sweetest carols angels sing

Proclaim the oneness of our King.

O deathless Flame of Beauty bright

Set fire our souls, bestow thy might!

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

O Servant of the Light of God

Help us to bear the chastening rod;

Like thee to bless when others curse -

So shape our lives by Heaven's verse.

How like the Father through the years

Did'st thou restrain the fount of tears

Which in thy children sought to flow

Forth from the deep of human woe.

How cheered the hearts that turned to thee!

How sweet thy rare humility!

With wisdom great thou did'st the Ark

Guide through the storms of hatred dark.

To vivify the souls endeared

The mystery of God appeared.

(The Baha’i World, 1930-1932)