VOL. XIX NO. 3
O Earth, you are surpassing fair.
From out your store we're daily fed,
We breathe your life-supporting air
and drink the water that you shed. . . .
Has evolution been in vain
that life should perish ere its prime?
Or will we from our greed refrain
and save our planet while there's time?
— THE REV. JOHN ANDREW STOREY (1935-1998)
A British Unitarian minister who authored thirty-two hymns for the 1985 British Unitarian collection Hymns for Living. Fourteen of them appear in the Unitarian Universalist Association hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition; these lines are from Hymn 174.
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