Peter Amidon's a cappella SATB arrangement of "The Silver Rain" (available as a sheet music pdf download in the Amidons Online Sheet Music Download Store, and in the Amidons' book collection "Fifty-five Anthems for the Small Church Choir" both available at amidonchoralmu... ) - 1st verse by Alice Henderson, 2nd verse by Peter Amidon, music by Marianne Zimmerman, sung by Cora Nielson Kelly, Louisa Sullivan Hungate, Emma Schneider, Suzannah Park, Emily Miller, Rhys Glennon, Arthur Davis, Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin, and Stefan Amidon. Peter and Mary Alice learned "The Silver Rain" from Harry and Edith Barron, who had learned it while living with the Bruderhof, a pacifist spiritual community that had moved from Germany to England (where Harry and Edith joined) to Paraguay (when they learned "The Silver Rain") to the United States. •• amidonchoralmu... LYRICS:
The silver rain, the shining sun,
And fields where scarlet poppies run,
And all the ripples of the wheat
Are in the bread that I do eat.
For when I sit at every meal, and say a grace,
I always feel that I am eating rain and sun,
And fields where scarlet poppies run.
The fields below, the skies above
Enfold us in God's arms of love
The clouds of mist, the endless sea,
Become a part of you and me.
The precious atmosphere that girths
The narrow vault twixt heav'n and earth
For this we offer prayers and laud:
The life sustaining breath of God.
16 окт 2024
