[HANASHIR:6366] Re: yigdal

[ItaSara <ItaSara...>]

YIGDAL in English. Music is the same as the traditional Yigdal found in the 
Gates of Song. This English version is from the old Union hymnal; the English 
is old, but can be upgraded I’m sure:

1. Praise to the living G-d! All praised be His [G-d’s] name,
Who was, and is anhd is to be, For aye the same!
The One Eternral God, Ere aught that now appears:
The First, the Last, beyond all thought His timeless Years!

2. Formless all lovely gorms Declare  [G-d’s] loveliness;
Holy, no holiness of earth Can [G-d] express. Lo, he [Adonai}  is Lord  [G-d] 
of all!
creation speaks [G-d‘s] name ev’ry where, above, below, [G-d‘s] will 
obeys.

3. [G-d‘s] spirit floweth free, high surging where it will,
in prophet’s word [G-d] spake of old, [G-d] speaketh still.
 Establish’d is  [G-d‘s] law And changless it shall stand. 
Deep writ upon the human heart, on sea on land.

4. [G-d] knoweth ev’ry thought,  our secrets open lie,
End as beginning clear to [G-d‘s] all seeking eye.
With perfect poise xg binds, Accordant to [G-d‘s] deed,
To wrong the doom, to right the joy, In measured meed.

5. Eternal life hath [G-d] implanted in the soul;
[ G-d‘s] love shall be our strength and stay   while ages roll.
Praise to the living G-d! All praised be [G-d‘s] name,
Who was and is, and is to be, for aye the same!

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