GREEN CATHEDRAL

 

Singing

I KNOW A GREEN CATHEDRAL

Gordon Johnstone and Carl Hahn

I know a green cathedral,
A shadowed forest shrine,
Where leaves in love join hands above
To arch your prayer and mine.

Within its cool depths sacred,
A priestly cedar sighs,
And the fir and pine lift arms divine
Unto the pure blue skies.

In my dear green cathedral
There is a flowered seat
And choir loft in branchéd croft
Where songs of bird hymn sweet.

And I like to dream at evening,
When the stars its arches light,
That my Lord and God treads its hallowed sod
In the cool, calm peace of night.

That my Lord and God treads its hallowed sod
In the cool, calm peace of night.