Monday, June 26, 2006

I stumbled on this song

While flipping through the Salvation Army songbook, I found this song. I've never heard it sung and I don't know how the tune goes, but the lyrics are brilliant.


Song 30
God of concrete, God of steel,
God of piston and of wheel,
God of pylon, God of steam,
God of girder and of beam,
God of atom, God of mine,
All the world of power is thine.

Lord of cable, Lord of rail,
Lord of motorway and of mail,
Lord of rocket, Lord of flight,
Lord of soaring satellite,
Lord of lightning’s livid line,
All the world of speed is thine.

Lord of science, Lord of art,
Lord of map and graph and chart,
Lord of physics and research,
Word of Bible, Faith of church,
Lord of sequence and design,
All the world of truth is thine.

God whose glory fills the earth,
Gave the universe its birth,
Loosed the Christ with Easter’s might,
Saves the world from evil’s blight,
Claims us all by grace divine,
All the world of love is thine.

Richard Granville Jones

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