Introduction
Words: Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America 1643.
Music: Dunfermling Thomas Ravenscroft, 1621 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luke 12:24
Words: Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America 1643.
Music: Dunfermling Thomas Ravenscroft, 1621 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If birds that neither sow nor reap
Nor store up any food
Constantly find to them and theirs
A maker kind and good;
If man provide eke for his birds,
In yard, in coops, in cage;
And each bird spends in songs and tunes,
His little time and age;
What care will man, what care will God
For wife and children take?
Millions of birds and worlds will God
Sooner than His forsake.