Gather Us In - Marty Haugen
Beat of 6/8
Note: Where "light of this" and "sound of our" are 3/8 on all of the verses.
[Verse 1]
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Here in this place new light is streaming, Now is the darkness vanished away,
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See in this space our fears and our dreamings, Brought here to you in the light of this day.
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Gather us in, the lost and forsaken, Gather us in, the blind and the lame;
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Call to us now, and we shall awaken, We shall arise at the sound of our name.
[Verse 2]
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We are the young, our lives are a myst'ry, we are the old, who yearn for your face,
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We have been sung throughout all of hist'ry, Called to be light to the whole hu-man race.
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Gather us in, the rich and the haughty, Gather us in, the proud and the strong;
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Give us a heart, so meek and so lowly, Give us the courage to enter the song.
[Verse 3]
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Here we will take the wine and the water, Here we will take the bread of new birth,
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Here you shall call your sons and Your daughters, Call us anew to be salt for the earth.
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Give us to drink the wine of compassion, Give us to eat the bread that is you;
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Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.
[Verse 4]
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Not in the dark of buildings confining, Not in some heaven light years away, But
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here in this place the new light is shining, now is the Kingdom, now is the day.
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Gather us in and hold us forever, Gather us in and make us Your own;
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Gather us in all peoples together, Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.