{"id":660,"date":"2009-08-10T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T10:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/08\/fresh-morning-a-morning-song.html"},"modified":"2009-08-10T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T10:32:23","slug":"fresh-morning-a-morning-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/08\/fresh-morning-a-morning-song.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: A Morning Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"50\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" width=\"50\" \/>This song&#8217;s been running through my head lately&#8211;thought it&#8217;d be nice to rise to:<\/p>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>Morning Has Broken<\/h3>\n<h3>As Sung by Cat Stevens<\/h3>\n<p><b>lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>Morning has broken, like the first morning\nBlackbird has spoken, like the first bird\nPraise for the singing, praise for the morning\nPraise for the springing fresh from the word\nSweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven\nLike the first dewfall, on the first grass\nPraise for the sweetness of the wet garden\nSprung in completeness where his feet pass\nMine is the sunlight, mine is the morning\nBorn of the one light, Eden saw play\nPraise with elation, praise every morning\nGod's recreation of the new day<\/pre>\n<pre>And here's a link to Cat\/Yusef performing it on the Today Show in 1973!<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>&nbsp;<\/pre>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song&#8217;s been running through my head lately&#8211;thought it&#8217;d be nice to rise to: &nbsp; 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