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Our choir sang a new anthem today. The words and music were by Carolyn McDade, a UU composer. The lyrics are so very Celtic (as is, of course, the name McDade!).

Lyrics under the cut, and a photo I took in Ireland that seems to fit...

Rising Green

My blood doth rise in the roots of yon oak,
her sap doth run in my veins.
Boundless my soul like the open sky
where the stars forever have lain.
Where the stars, where the stars, where the stars
forever have lain.

My hands hold the weavings of time without end,
my sight as deep as the sea.
Beating, my heart sounds the measures of old,
that of love's eternity.
That of love, that of love, that of love's eternity.

I feel the tides as they answer the moon,
rushing on a far distant sand.
Winging my song is the wind of my breast
and my love blows over the land.
And my love, and my love, and my love blows over the land.

My foot carries days of the old into new,
our dreaming shows us the way.
Wondrous our faith settles deep in the earth,
rising green to bring a new day.
Rising green, rising green, rising green to bring a new day.