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I'll save you the click 😉 Two verses I sang, as a high school tenor: Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! >
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood Upon the chaos dark and rude, And bid its angry tumult cease, And give, for wild confusion, peace; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! These men and women did and do place themselves in mortal peril >
all around the world so the likes of us can write self-indulgent blogs without fearing even for a second the peril that our ancestors, in whatever place they were, lived with at every moment in their own homes — >
-- the perils of tyranny, of arbitrary violence and of comprehensive destruction of their entire worlds. This Memorial Day we are morally obliged to thank them, to remember them, and to thank no less the God Who has given so much victory and might to their hands and to ours; >