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Thread #7544 Message #3491317
Posted By: Joe Offer
17-Mar-13 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Psalms sung to 'The Water is Wide'
Subject: ADD: Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire
Oh, I hadn't heard "Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire." It's a very nice setting of 1 Corinthians 13:
THOUGH I MAY SPEAK WITH BRAVEST FIRE [lyrics by Hal H. Hopson (1972) Tune: Waly, Waly]
1 Though I may speak with bravest fire, And have the gift to all inspire, And have not love, my words are vain, As sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
2 Though I may give all I possess, And striving so my love profess, But not be giv'n by love within, The profit soon turns strangely thin.
3 Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, Our spirits long to be made whole. Let inward love guide every deed; By this we worship, and are freed.