{"id":8929,"date":"2021-10-17T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:32:05","slug":"responsive-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2021\/10\/responsive-reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsive reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, I posted a responsive reading<\/a> with words by the Universalist minister Eliza Tupper Wilkes, that’s copyright-free so you can use it freely in online worship. Now here’s a copyright-free poem by Unitarian poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, arranged as a responsive reading and available under a copyright-free CC0 license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our twenty-first century eyes might find Frances Harper’s nineteenth century rhythms and rhyme schemes a little trite. But I think when read out loud, responsively, our twenty-first century ears will enjoy this poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs for the People<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Let us make songs for the people
Songs for the old and young;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not for the clashing of sabres,
For carnage, nor for strife;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But songs to thrill the hearts of all
With more abundant life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our world, so worn and weary,
Needs music, pure and strong,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To hush the jangle and discords
Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music to soothe all its sorrow,
Till war and crimes shall cease,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And human hearts grown tender
Girdle the world with peace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arranged from \u201cSongs for the People,\u201d Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian) CC0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, public domain image from the Library of Congress<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I posted a responsive reading with words by the Universalist minister Eliza Tupper Wilkes, that’s copyright-free so you can use it freely in online worship. Now here’s a copyright-free poem by Unitarian poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, arranged as a responsive reading and available under a copyright-free CC0 license. Our twenty-first century eyes … Continue reading “Responsive reading”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-8929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-religion","tag-frances-ellen-watkins-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}