“Dix” is the original title of this melody. It was composed by Conrad Kocher in 1838. The lyrics were written by Folliott Sandford Pierpoint in 1863. Though the text has been set to other melodies, Kocher’s tune is perhaps the most common. It’s the one I learned as a child, and I play it here on lyre. Enjoy, and please share!
Category Archives: Nature
Earth Day Gift #Music #Poem
Happy Earth Day, everyone!
Please read on for today’s poem. But first, here is a free download of my original album, Mother Nature Sings.
Click the link below to download and save the zip file, containing 13 mp3’s.
Mother Nature Sings
Album Description
Celebrating Nature and Goddess as the divine feminine. Not just for women, but women especially enjoy these.
This is an acoustic solo album with ukulele, voice, and some nature sounds. “Wishing Well” also has recorder. 🙂 Musical styles include meditative/New Age, folk, Hawaiian, bluegrass, jazz, spoken-word poetry, and more.
Track listing
1. Instrument of Peace
2. Wishing Well
with recorder
3. Live like a Leaf
4. Song of the Sea
5. Cricket
with natural cricket chirp
6. Woman
7. Really Been Loved
8. Phoenix Rising
9. Thank You, Mother Earth
10. Peace, Be Still
with natural ocean tide
11. Wings of Autumn
12. One in You
13. Singing Sweet
I hope you enjoy this album! If you do, please share this post.
Now for today’s poem.
Our Giving Earth
Our Earth keeps giving us so much,
Not least water that is a must,
The food we eat so we may live,
The air, its breath a precious gift.
The birds who sing in trees and sky,
The breezes through the trees that sigh,
Each lovely flow’r to see and smell,
A gift that wishes only well.
The Winter, Summer, Fall and Spring
Come bringing changes pondering.
We take for granted time and place,
But Earth deserves our thanks and praise.
Creator in us and above
Has made for us our Earth to love.
So may we shine the Light of Heav’n
On all our bless’d Earth has given!
How Great Thou Art #Music #Mp3
Continuing to share nature themed hymns, here is “How Great Thou Art,” played on zither. The music is a traditional Swedish melody. An 1885 poem by Carl Boberg became the lyrics, originally written in Swedish and later translated into German and Russian. As well-known as the English translation has become, it wasn’t translated until 1925, with another translation in 1949.
I hope you enjoy my zither arrangement, and feel free to share it with others!
Lotus #Poem
Lotus grows in mud
Hope and light bloom from darkness
Let us do the same!
After a Bad Day #Prayer #Poem
Today has been a letdown,
But it’s over! Thank you, Lord!
I pray tomorrow’s better
And my patience will endure.
I pray that when the morning sunlight
Kisses grass and trees,
It sends your peace and hope and love
Shining down on me!
And when tomorrow’s ended
As the gentle night begins,
I pray, whatever happens,
Help me turn to you within!
Amen.
Onward #Haiku #Poem
Nature continues
While seasons and crises pass.
We move onward too.
For the Birds #Poem #Music #Meditation
Here’s a musical meditation on zither, and a Tritina (poem) that is as much for us as it is for the birds!
Through your singing you speak
Sharing peace, hope and love
With your tweets and warbles.
But it’s not just your warbles
It’s the message you speak
Can it teach me to love?
Do you know hate? No, love!
Must I learn your warbles
So I can gently speak?
Or can I speak love without warbles?
“This Is My Father’s World” #Music #Mp3
You’ve probably heard this well-known hymn in praise of the vast world of nature that God created. Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister, wrote the lyrics as a 16-stanza poem. It was first published in 1901, after his death.
In 1915, Franklin L. Sheppard chose 3 verses for the hymn and set them to the tune “Terra Beata,” meaning “Blessed Earth” in Latin.
Please enjoy my lyre arrangement, and feel free to download and share the mp3!
Yule Chorus – Lyrics and Music
My contribution to the Yuletide, sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells” and played on ukulele.
Lyrics
Sun has come
Sun is gone
Sun will shine again.
Longest night, it’s time to light
Your inner fire of change.
Yule!
Sun has come
Sun is gone
Sun will shine again.
Longest night, it’s time to light
Your inner fire of change!
Thanksgiving Playlist: A Gift to You
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
You can listen to these original songs by clicking or pressing Enter on the Play button below, or by clicking on the one you’d like to start with.
No matter how you celebrate, I simply pray that you do, and do so earnestly, honestly, and joyfully!
Mystical Strings 
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