Bless This House

My mother loved this prayer. A copy of it hung on the south wall of the “front room” in the our farm house during the 1950s. I can still hear Perry Como singing it.

 

Bless this house, O Lord we pray,

Make it safe by night and day . . .

Bless these walls so firm and stout,

Keeping want and trouble out . . .

Bless the roof and chimneys tall,

Let thy peace lie overall . . .

Bless this door that it may prove,

Ever open,

To joy and love . . .

Bless these windows shining bright,

Letting in God’s Heavenly light,

Bless the hearth, ablazing there,

With smoke ascending like a prayer!

Bless the people here within,

Keep them pure and free from sin . . .

Bless us all that we may be,

Fit O Lord to dwell with thee . . .

Bless us all that one day we may dwell,

O Lord! With Thee!

(Words and Music by Helen Taylor

and May H. Morgan ( a.k.a. Brahe ), 1927)

Do you remember something unusual on the walls of your childhood home?