Tune: Binchester
('Happy are they, they that love God')
Psalm 52 v.8-9
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I be like a green olive tree
Dear is my Lord to me
A tree within God's house, I grow
More of Him seek to know
I trust in God's mercy for e'er
With me He does it share
And unto all who do believe
They too His grace receive
I will praise you for ever, for
You acted for me sure
Your name is good, your saints do say
Now dawned redemption's day
For by His power, I saved each hour
Foes not me devour
Though self I cannot save, 'tis he
All my salvation be
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. A short ditty on the picture of believers as olive trees in God's house.
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Tune name: Binchester - a town in County Durham, not near Winchester!
You're an exotic one you are Orchidee... an olive tree no less... why couldn't you be a pear tree or a good old victoria plum tree, or prickly like a blackberry bush. Fido will assure you that theyre all good enough to pee against you know.
Thanks Dusk. lol. Well, I suppose it's cos there are olives in Israel. You off to hug a tree?
They won't allow me out (of the asylum).
I will be joining you soon on the 'funny farm'. I started feeling sorry for a lamp-post outdoors one Winter's night!
Nice hymn poem
I love olives and I like looking at those old and gnarled olive trees ..
I just dont see what Popeye saw in her...
Heehee thanks Neville. Is that you in that tree there?!
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
Orchie, nicely said! Now you want to be a tree? I thought you wanted to be a lamp-post!
Oh lol, thanks Fred.
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