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Hymn written by Audrey Theodosia Bryant
for the
climate change conference - to be sung to the tune of Danny Boy
Oh mother
earth,
obedient to God's calling,
your mountain glaciers and your
rivers long,
your swelling oceans, many waters falling
to thirsty
lands –
for you we raise our song:
God's precious globe, our
glowing blue-green jewel
set in the bounds and mists of outer space
to be our home, our labour and renewal
where we, your men and
women, find our trusted place.
Oh mother
earth,
God's joy in ever seeing
his handmaid and his ever-fertile
spouse
in whom he birthed life's many ways of being;
the birds and
beasts
in you, our living house.
We know the inspiration of your
beauty,
we mine the riches of your million years,
we have
explored, but failed in our duty
to care for you, your other children
and our peers.
.
Oh mother
earth,
we take to Copenhagen
our last, our deepest hope of all,
to live within our means, *no more delay, gone
are heady days
when men could steal and stall.
Now look ahead, you delegates of
nations,
and see our children, what their lives are worth -
to live at last in knowing we're relations,
Christ's family and
offspring of our mother earth.
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