tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28981895733814258312024-02-19T00:51:46.762-08:00Baha'i Songs & PoemsLyrics and Written Music for Baha'i SongsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-72455046639855663582017-10-10T08:01:00.000-07:002020-07-12T09:05:26.228-07:00A child's prayer - words adapted from a Baha'i prayer; music by Marion Wilcox<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Child's Way magazine, July-August, 1971)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-7045677144258131122017-08-14T20:26:00.000-07:002020-07-12T09:05:36.493-07:00be of good cheer - by Marion Wilcox<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">(Child’s Way Magazine, May-June, 1971)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-90772321214072365492017-06-03T20:11:00.000-07:002020-07-12T09:05:47.809-07:00Declaration of the Báb – by Kay Patcon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The blessed Báb, His turban green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shone bright upon the Persian scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And His laws from above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Twas Mulla Husayn the Báb first told</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About His Mission and trust to hold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dauntless, courageous, brave and true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Dawn-Breakers had a task to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of fighting enemies of His Cause;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only death could bring a pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gaining victory for the Báb,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alas, the Báb was shot and dead,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But victory followed in His stead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For His Faith remained alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And soon His Promised One arrived!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Child’s Way Magazine, May-June, 1971)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">‘Abdu’l-Baha tells us that : “At one time, Bahá’u’lláh had
written down an ode of Rúmí’s for him, [<a href="http://bahaistoremember.blogspot.com/2015/08/ustad-ismail.html"><span style="color: blue;">Ustád Ismá’í</span>l</a>] and had told him to turn
his face toward the Báb and sing the words, set to a melody. And so as he wandered
through the long dark nights, Ustád would sing these lines:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am lost, O Love, possessed and dazed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love’s fool am I, in all the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They call me first among the crazed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though I once came first for wit and worth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O Love, who sellest me this wine,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O Love, for whom I burn and bleed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love, for whom I cry and pine—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thou the Piper, I the reed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If Thou wishest me to live,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through me blow Thy holy breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The touch of Jesus Thou wilt give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To me, who’ve lain an age in death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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verily.” That is, it symbolizes the Primal Covenant established between God and
man on the day of “Am I not your Lord?” On that day, the Creator summoned
posterity out of the loins of Adam and said to the generations unborn, “Am I
not your Lord?” Whereupon they answered, “Yea, verily, Thou art.” Cf. Qur’án
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now follow me closely, it won't take long. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virtues are what bring humanity along. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We want you to know that we just don't get it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virtues are admired, but rarely get the credit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you got your plants and your animals too, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But they got limits when compared to you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's boys and girls who are gonna win. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They're the ones who got Virtues within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verse 3</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you got your kindness and patience galore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Assertiveness and caring are great, that's for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Courage, love and service and add some forgiveness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is what the world wants to see, more of not less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verse 4</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are lots of virtues, that are really where it's at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like cleanliness, respect and that little one, tact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And even with our parents, courtesy's a hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The one called enthusiasm's our favorite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verse 5</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We all know about honesty and justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Folks are keen on unity, you'll just have to trust us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Determination, detachment, obedience, too –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With a little dash of reverence, we'll rap them to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verse 6</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now all these virtues, you know they're just right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that a man with no virtues is a lamp without a light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With our virtues revealed, you'll give us the nod.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey, a world full of virtues is a world full of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Final Chorus</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without virtues,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You're nothin'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">WITH virtues,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You're SOMETHIN'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">(Brilliant Star, September-October 1999)</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-39399836458623939262016-07-20T02:00:00.000-07:002016-11-04T12:57:46.212-07:00A Baha’i Mother – a poem by Sydney Sprague<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>[This incident occurred in Zanjan, Persia, in the Days of
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alone within she stood; the crowd without,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With horrid taunting jeer and mocking shout,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Were making out of death a ghastly feast,-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As human blood is banquet for the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She knew, alas too well, who was their prey;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In one brief hour they had snatched away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From out her arms, her own, her well-beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah, for this crime was Heaven itself not moved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why should her boy, a tree of strength and truth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Be struck down in the beauty of his youth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why should the wicked triumph o'er the good,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The lamb be given to the wolves for food?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet often, he to her this warning gave:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Know thou, man cannot soul and body save,—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My soul I give to God; if others lust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For Bahai blood, then bravely die I must."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The woman remembered; strength came to her heart;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"O God," she prayed, "grant unto me a part<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of this day's sacrifice to Thee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know that I, so weak, can little do to show</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My love for Thee, yet willingly I give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My boy, my all; now grant me strength to live."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So from the altar of that mother's love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like incense, rose a martyr's soul above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just then the crowd drew near with hideous yell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Threw something through the window; there it fell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Close to her feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She gazed at it in dread and saw, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n shapeless mass, her
loved one's head!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, by God's help, she took that head so dear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A prayer breathed o'er it, kissed it with a tear—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And back to the blood-hounds hurled it in her might;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even their base souls were troubled by that sight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Triumphant rang her voice,—aye, from the rack,—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"That which to God we give, we take not back!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Sydney Sprague (The Baha’i Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 5, January-February-March
1909)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-86166516464502616412016-05-08T09:08:00.000-07:002016-10-12T12:36:37.405-07:00Orientation – a poem by May Maxwell<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From gardens of light! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thy heart piercing song <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hath shattered the night, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dispelling the gloom <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And flooding the air! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world bath not seen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But felt thou wert there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O thou divine Rose </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From gardens of love! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thy form of substance, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thy breath from above, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Exhales to the world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A perfume so rare, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That tho' still unseen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We know thou art there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O thou divine Star </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the realms on high! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thy radiant beams <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fill earth, air, and sky! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bereaved of the Sun <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world unaware <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now turns to Its Glory <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And sees Thou art there!
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- May Maxwell <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Star of the West, Vol. 15, No. 4, July 1924) </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-38442910943399924482016-03-20T07:54:00.000-07:002016-04-19T11:08:59.715-07:00Songs from 1992 Baha'i World Congress in New York City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ayyám-i-Há is coming! Ayyám-i-Há is near!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Intercalay’s coming, the time for fun and cheer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Báb proclaimed that these are days that we give to the
poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have good food and give our gifts and open up our door,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">door, door, door, door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ayyám-i-Há is coming! Ayyám-i-Há is near!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Intercalay’s coming, the time for fun and cheer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Báb proclaimed that these are days that we give to the
poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have good food and give our gifts and open up our door,
door, door, door,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">door, door, door, door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Child’s Way magazine, January-February 1978)</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-73948956686206924852015-04-13T01:30:00.000-07:002015-04-15T11:39:02.465-07:00Festival of Ridvan - the "Most Great Festival"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-59226634519750008612014-12-07T03:30:00.000-08:002015-09-22T02:54:13.442-07:00Mona With The Children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-32109078722260488342013-07-20T22:21:00.000-07:002013-11-26T22:32:05.548-08:00"All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit..." - 'Abdu'l-Baha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What flaming beauty Thine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To draw them from afar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Messenger of God:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> How great the need for Thee,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And yet, Thy worth, how few could see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To walk where Thou has trod!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What Spirit hath Thine eyes shown forth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That twenty thousands saw its worth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Prophet of the Lord:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O twofold Prince and Guide:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Who mirrored forth Thy Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And gazed straight heavenward,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Reformer of this Day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What fiery accents used!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What mighty laws infused</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Primal Point:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In which all Names are stored,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who did men's souls anoint;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We ask to learn of Thee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> How power flows to men</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> From out God's mighty Pen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(The Baha'i World 1938-1940)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-71192849432366435792012-12-05T03:30:00.000-08:002015-01-13T09:33:33.464-08:00Remover of Difficulties<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there any remover of difficulties save God?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Say praised be God He is God</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All are His servants and all abide by His bidding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None but Thee can understand our hearts,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Friend of Love Divine!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tho we seek thru all the world for friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whose love will be like Thine!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None but Thee can understand our failures,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And know our deepest need;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only Thou canst lift us from ourselves,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our burdened souls relieve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None but Thee can satisfy our longing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father and our God!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None but Thee can understand our problems,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The road that we have trod.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only Thou canst lead us out of darkness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And light in us increase;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only Thou canst raise us from our death</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In self, and give us peace!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Baha’i Magazine, vol.24, no. 4, July 1933)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898189573381425831.post-87504828465844179732012-09-19T22:24:00.000-07:002015-01-13T09:33:51.665-08:00Rejoice! Rejoice!<div style="text-align: right;">
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