by William Guthe
Sing & rejoice ye children of the day & of the Light (2x)
For the Lord God is at work (3x) in this thick night
C – F C / – – D G / C C7 F D7 C FG C –
In this thick night of darkness (3x) that may be felt (repeat)
F D7 CE Am Dm F G – (repeat)
Sing & rejoice… (as above)
Truth doth flourish, flourish as the rose
Lilies do grow, do grow among the thorns
Plants do grow, do grow a-top of the hills
Upon them the lambs do skip & play
F C Dm – / Am F G – (repeat)
Never heed the tempests nor the storms
Never heed the floods nor the rains
For the Seed Christ is over all
Over all the See Christ doth reign
– words & music by William Guthe, (c) 1983 by author. All rights reserved.
William Guthe was a student at Pendle Hill in the early 1970s and encountered this epistle by George Fox. He felt it spoke to the turmoil of the times and how God’s power can overcome this. He set the words to music. A fuller quotation from the epistle is here.
You can listen to the tune its song page in The Music Box.
“And so, be of good faith and valiant for the Truth; for the Truth can live in the gaols [jails]…” – Epistle, 1663