Choral Akari Archive

This Is My Song, O God of All the Nations

Hymn Information

Folder: Main III, no. 52
Tune used, name: 'Finlandia'
Composer: Sibelius, Jean (1865–1957); composed in 1899
Lyricists:

Copyright (text): © 1934, 1962, Lorenz Publishing Co. (stanzas 1 and 2); © 1964, Lorenz Publishing Co. (stanza 3)
Source used for representative text: from yourdailypoem.com

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine;
this is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine:
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

2
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine:
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.

3
May truth and freedom come to every nation;
may peace abound where strife has raged so long;
that each may seek to love and build together,
a world united, righting every wrong;
a world united in its love for freedom,
proclaiming peace together in one song.