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- TITLEGather Us InAUTHORMarty Haugen
COPYRIGHTLINEGIA PublicationsPARTHere in this place new light is streaming,
- Now is the darkness vanished away,
- See in this space our fears and our dreamings,
- Brought here to you in the light of this day.PARTGather us in the lost and forsaken,
- Gather us in the blind and the lame;
- Call to us now, and we shall awaken,
- We shall arise at the sound of our name.PARTŹWe are the young our lives are a myst'ry
- We are the old who yearn for your face,
- We have been sung throughout all of hist'ry,
- Called to be light to the whole human race.PARTGather us in the rich and the haughty,
- Gather us in the proud and the strong;
- Give us a heart so meek and so lowly,
- Give us the courage to enter the song.PARTŽHere we will take the wine and the water,
- Here we will take the bread of new birth,
- Here we shall call your sons and your daughters,
- Call us anew to be salt for the earth.PART¨Give us to drink the wine of compassion,
- Give us to eat the bread that is you;
- Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
- Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.PARTŚNot in the dark of buildings confining,
- Not in some heaven, light years away, But
- here in this place the new light is shining,
- Now is the Kingdom, now is the day.PARTGather us in and hold us forever,
- Gather us in and make us your own;
- Gather us in all peoples together,
- Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.