Music: Andrew March
Text: Psalm 90 adapt. Sue Threakall
Performed: The First Readings Project
Conductor: J. David Moore
Recorded 25 September 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, MN.

Order of Service: https://www.botolph.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Service-of-Thanksgiving-and-Remembrance-2023.pdf

Text adaptation from additional scripture sources:
Psalm 90: 2-5, 9, 17; Psalm 34: 15; Psalm 65: 5;
Psalm 126: 4; Jeremiah 31: 9; Ecclesiastes 12: 7.

TEXT:
O Lord, your eyes fall upon us 
and your ears are open to our cry.  
When we weep, you are near. 
When we stumble, you lead us back. 
You let us walk by the brooks of water 
You restore our fortunes as the river restores the desert.  
And the beauty of the Lord, our God, is upon us.
 
You are the hope of the ends of the earth 
And of the farthest seas. 
From everlasting to everlasting 
You are God! 
And the beauty of the Lord, our God, is upon us. 

A thousand years in your sight 
Are but as yesterday!  
We spend our years as a tale that is told
And like a watch in the night they pass away.  
And you carry us, as if in a dream, 
And we fade away like the tender grass.
 
As our days come to an end 
You turn us back to dust. 
We return to the earth like a sigh,
And our spirit returns to you.  
And the beauty of the Lord, our God, is upon us.

Words (Adaptation) © Copyright 2015 Sue Threakall

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Your Eyes Fall Upon Us

Andrew March was the winner of the first Masterprize International Composing Competition in 1998 with his orchestral piece Marine - à travers les arbres. He was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in November 1973. In 1992 he was accepted at the Royal College of Music to study composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts, graduating in 1996.

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