hymnsandbooks: HOLY INNOCENTS HYMN DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED IN CONNECTICUT

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

For Holy Innocents: Dedicated to those children and adults killed in the school shooting in Connecticut

We wring our hands in hopelessness

while Herod's spirit roams abroad,

the innocent are slaughtered still

as hatred draws a tighter cord.

We lack audacity to face

corruption in our very midst;

humanity is drawn by greed

and power has the final twist.

God bring again your human love,

an innocent and child-like grace

infusing every heart and mind.

Renew the hope of every race.

The children lying slaughtered, dead,

or those abused through life from birth

are signs of lack of care and love

we so much need through all the earth.

God come again and make us hear,

God fuse our ice-cold hearts of stone

until compassion warms each life

and through us grace and love are shown.
Tune: BRESLAU
Metre: LM

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