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In the Amidons' book and CD ''Twenty-five Anthems for Interfaith & Community Choirs'. Sung here by Friends-of-the-Amidons-Singers. The text is from the poem "Slowly, slowly they re
turn" from SABBATHS by Wendell Berry. Hallowell, southeastern Vermont's hospice singing group, was thrilled to get to sing this for Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who started the Green Belt Movement, planting millions of trees in Kenya. Peter composed the piano part for Mary Alice's solo performance on the Amidons' Hymns & Ballads CD. This can also be done a cappella, listen to the Youtube link below. Mary Alice's solo performance a cappella with lovely photos LYRICS Great Treeswords: "Slowly, slowly, they return" from SABBATHS by Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1987 by Wendell Berry. Used by arrangement with North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. All rights reservedSlowly, slowy, they returnTo the small woodland let alone:Great trees, outspreading and upright,apostles of the living light.Patient as stars, they build in airTier after tier a timbered choir,Stout beams upholding weightless graceof song, a blessing on this place.They stand in waiting all around,Uprisings of their native ground,Downcomings of the distant lightThey are the advent they await.Receiving sun and giving shade,Their life’s a benefaction made,And is a benediction saidOver the living and the dead.In fall their brightened leaves, released,Fly down the wind and we are pleasedTo walk on radiance, amazed.Oh light come down to earth, be praised!
