Our Saviour's prayer has often been versified and set to music, notably to the tune Home Sweet Home. Why not Mrs. Eddy's beautiful paraphrase, which is a gem of poetry in itself?
Principle eternal and harmonious,
Nameless and adorable Intelligence,
Thou art ever-present and supreme;
And when this supremacy of Spirit shall appear, the dream of matter will
disappear.
Give us the understanding of Truth and Love,
And loving we shall learn God, and Truth will destroy all error.
And lead us unto the Life that is Soul, and deliver us from the errors of
sense, sin, sickness, and death,
For God is Life, Truth, and Love forever.
Harmonious Principle, ours evermore,
Intelligence infinite, Thee we adore.
Thou ever art present, and ever supreme,
The Heaven of Spirit that foils matter's dream.
Give us understanding of Truth and of Love;
We learn God, and Truth will all error remove.
Lead us to the Life that is Soul unconfined;
Deliver from errors untrue and unkind.
For Thou art the Life that no death ever knew;
Thou Truth in such glory, no sin can be true;
Thou Love over all, and the infinite whole,
Forever and ever the Dayspring of Soul!
Every sound that breaks the silence only makes it more profound,
Like a crash of deafening thunder in the sweet blue stillness
drowned;
Let thy soul walk softly in thee, as a saint in Heaven unshod,
For to be alone with Silence is to be alone with God.
