Magellan's Log: The Texas Zen Hymnbook Contents

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Though the hymns can be enjoyed individually,
The Texas Zen Hymnbook is a song-cycle,
a unified performance piece,
with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Each of the 41 pages contains lyrics and a midi file,
which plays automatically when you open the page.
To get the full effect, start with Hymn No. 1
and proceed sequentially.
You'll need about 74 minutes for the complete cycle.

1. Light from Within
2. In the Garden
3. Quiet on the Freeways
4. I Love to Tell the Story
5. Holy, Holy, Holy
6. Sva Na Hi Ka Na Lo
7. Here the Fount
8. Tend to the Sick and Lonely
9. Silence Lifted Me
10. When the Rainbow Falls from Heaven
11. Shall We Gather at the River
12. Time's a Round
13. Faith of the Sages
14. Now the Night Is Over
15. Lead on, O Light Eternal
16. The Sweet Here and Now
17. The Texas Desert
18. Fools Surround Us
19. Little Green Glade
20. Blest Be Those Who Do Not Believe

21. The Way Is Here
22. Helios, Our Help in Ages Past
23. Since My Eyes Learned How Not to Judge
24. Seeing Through the Veil
25. They're Teaching Me
26. One Light from Many Lamps
27. The Rainbow Bird
28. There Is Power in the Void
29. Amazing Grace
30. Mystery's Curtain
31. Every Day's Another Dawning
32. Polish Your Knob
33. Work for the Night Is Coming
34. There Is a Forest
35. The Farmer and the Archer
36. The Old Rugged Tree
37. Softly and Tenderly
38. Lead, Kindly Light
39. The White Bird Disappears
40. Doxology
41. Peace in the One

Go to first hymn>>

Coda:
To play a random hymn, click here. After the first random hymn opens, you can continue to get other random hymns by clicking the "Back" button on the page.

Click here to download a zip file (53k) containing all the midi's.

For comparison purposes, here is one very long page (without midi's) in two columns showing the original lyrics (on the left) and the new lyrics (on the right).

For information about purchasing
a CD performance
of The Texas Zen Hymnbook,
click here.