See, beyond that rocky outcrop
Proper 21 year A
Exodus 17: 1 – 7
See, beyond that rocky outcrop,
struggling through the desert sand,
people who had known oppression
looking for a promised land.
Here there was no habitation,
home and peace seemed far away,
they had trudged across a desert,
cloud and fire had marked their way.
Hunger dogged their every footstep,
thirst was ever in the wings,...
Continues to verse 3
Tune: THE CARNIVAL IS OVER; HYFRYDOL
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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