- INDIAN 23RD PSALM
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This is a beautiful version of the
23rd. Psalm.
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- The Great Father above is a Sheppard Chief.
- I am His and with Him I want not.
- He throws out to me a rope
- and the name of the rope is Love
- and He draws me to where the grass is green
- and the water not dangerous
- and I eat and am satisfied.
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- Sometimes my heart is very weak
- and falls down
- but He lifts me up again
- and draws me into a good road.
- His name is Wonderful.
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- Sometime, and it may be very soon,
- it may be very long, long in time
- He will draw me into a valley.
- It is dark there, but I'll be afraid not,
- for it is in between those mountains
- that the Sheppard Creator will meet me
- and the hunger that I have in my heart
- all through this life will be satisfied.
- He gives me a staff to lean upon.
- He spreads a table before me
- with all kinds of food.
- He puts His hand upon my head
- and all the "tired" is gone.
- My cup He fills till it runs over.
- What I tell is true.
- I lie not.
- These roads that are away ahead
- will stay with me through life and after,
- and afterwards I will go to live
- in the Big Tepee and sit down
- with the Sheppard Chief forever.
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- So be it.
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- Author Unknown
