OLD SCRAPBOOK HYMN
GIRL GUIDE’S DISCOVERY. A London Girl Guide was tuining the leaves of an old scrapbdolc at home. Among the old-fashioned' cut-out soldiers and dogs and fairies she saw quaint lines of script verse that seemed to have been cut from a Christmas card. The verses were in the form 01 a dedication of a new house in archaic spelling, and she was so struck ij her discovery that she gave it to ner Guide captain. The Guide chiefs thought it was worth reviving. The hymn from a scrapbook was sung, when the new London Guide headquarters were inaugurated, beioie Princess Mary, Lord Baden-Powe and the Mayor and Mayoress of Westminster. It runs : —:
Blesse ve foure corners of thys house, And be ve Lintel Blest; And Blesse ye hearth© and blesse ye
And eclie place of Rest. And Blesse ye doore that opens wyde To strangers as to kin. And Blesse eclie cristal window-pane, That lets ye Sunlighte in. And Blesse ye Roofe-tree overlieds, And everie Sturdye wall, Ye Peace of God, ye peace of Man, Ye peace of Love on alle. . Princess Mary was charmed with the newlv discovered “Blessing when she heard it, and it will probably be used again.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 3
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