I sing a song of the saints of God,
Patient and brave and true,
Who lived and loved and served and died
For the Lord whose love they knew;
And one was a doctor and one was a nurse
And one built the buildings and one kept the purse
And one sang the songs and down all the years
God helped them like me and you.
They loved their Lord whose love they heard
In Christ shone from crib to cross;
Through bread and wine they saw that love
And counted all things loss;
And one was a soldier and one was a priest
And one was great and one was least
In the eyes of the world, but God’s great feast
Was for them as me and you
They lived in their thousands down all the years
And they live in their thousands still;
The world isn’t worthy of those who live
By faith and serve Jesus’ will;
They are pupils and teachers and workers and see,
They travel in hope like the refugee;
With the promise of God in their heart they are free
To live, just like me and you.
Michael Docker
Grand Isle (BPW481)