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Praise for the Life Returning
Hymn composed by
Pat DeSimioContextual information
“Praise for the Life Returning” is a hymn of praise and gratitude for the rebirth of spring, rooted in humanist and naturalist/Pagan traditions.
“Praise for the Life Returning” is a hymn of praise and gratitude for the rebirth of spring, rooted in humanist and naturalist/Pagan traditions.
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[Praise for the Life Returning]
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Pat DeSimioHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
Pat DeSimio (he/they) is a troubadour with roots, sending out songs like cottonwood seeds while using language and storytelling to make a difference where he’s planted himself. Across a life woven through with song, Pat also weaves words into plans and funding for education, the environment, and bridge-building cooperation. Pat’s songs, like his other writing, are crafted to bring people together and make the challenges of life a little easier to work through, the joys a little easier to attend to.
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Lyricist Background information
Pat DeSimio (he/they) is a troubadour with roots, sending out songs like cottonwood seeds while using language and storytelling to make a difference where he’s planted himself. Across a life woven through with song, Pat also weaves words into plans and funding for education, the environment, and bridge-building cooperation. Pat’s songs, like his other writing, are crafted to bring people together and make the challenges of life a little easier to work through, the joys a little easier to attend to.
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Streamlets flash with fresh-thawed laughter,
Snowdrops pop from new-soft earth.
Joy is a leaf-bug as it dances,
All in the rhythm of rebirth.
Life beams in through the green gold spring!
The frozen world is greening,
As earth, sea, and sky sing, sing, sing, sing
Praise for the life returning.
Born in hope, in round unbroken,
Birdsong rings in dawn-burst boughs;
How like an egg the ice is cracking
Over the wildly hatching ground!
Life beams in through the green gold spring!
The frozen world is greening,
As earth, sea, and sky sing, sing, sing, sing
Praise for the life returning.
Praise for the wheel, and praise its turning.
Praise for the ring in riots of blooms.
Praise for the life that’s ever living,
Born in all with the world made new.
Life beams in through the green gold spring!
The frozen world is greening,
As earth, sea, and sky sing, sing, sing, sing
Praise for the life returning.
Praise for the life returning.
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