Thurlow Weed - We raise our branches high today - текст песни (слова)

1. We raise our branches high today
 to sign Hosanna and to warn:
 The hands that wield a waving branch
 may also weave a crown of thorns.
 
 2. We sing exultant songs today,
 yet singing we remember this:
 The lips that bring the sweetest praise
 may also bear the sharpest kiss.
 
 3. We greet a golden dawn today
 and marvel as the darkness grows
 that even stalwart confidence
 may fail before the rooster crows.
 
 4. And so our hearts are shaped today
 by palms, a kiss, a friend's denial,
 to hold the very simple prayer --
 God, save us from the time of trial.  

 From Songs for the Cycle ©2004 by Michael Hudson.
 Church Publishing Incorporated.  All rights reserved.  Used by permission.