by Nina Evaline Wood
published by The World Peace Association - 1915
(The image of the flag below appears on the cover of the original sheet music.
The lyrics of the song are posted below.)
The peace flag is described
in this way:
It is, the Peace Symbol of the Soul.
It is the Peace Symbol of Nature.
It is the Natural Peace Symbol
of the World.
It is the logical Companion Flag
of all national emblems.
It is the Structural
Symbol of Harmony,
It is, the Basic Symbol of Art.
It is the basis of
Modern Science-astro-physics.
"As surely as the Rainbow is the forerunner of a
calm after a storm. so surely will the Realization of
Permanent World Peace-through the natural, orderly
epoch-making development of Wireless Economics
follow the International Standardization of the White
Rainbow Flag of Peace.
Silently it pleads the righteousness of the
economic demand of Humanity."
Here is a description of the activist Nina Wood....
Oregon State Hospital finds family for its once-forgotten dead
Jefferson Public Radio | By Angela Decker
Published November 23, 2021 at 1:27 PM PST
Suffragette and activist Nina Evaline Wood’s cremains were claimed just last year. Born in 1861 she moved with her family from Wisconsin to the Pacific Northwest in the 1870’s.
Nina worked all her adult life. In 1890 she homesteaded 160 acres of land south of Spokane, Washington. She also earned a medical license, and in 1891 she was on the staff and board of trustees at the Washington Biochemic Medical College in Spokane. Her specialty was herbalism and therapeutics.
Wood was one of the founding members of the “Women’s Protective Association of Spokane,” a group of women who were outraged over the treatment of rape victims in Spokane’s legal system. It’s possible her work with the legal system inspired her to become an attorney. In 1896, she was the sole woman in a class of 74 students to take and pass the Oregon Law Exam in Salem.
News articles referred to her as the “woman lawyer” and “a woman socialist who claims to be a member of the Portland bar.” Wood wrote booklets and gave speeches in support of socialism. She also advocated for humane practices in prisons, international peace, child safety, and child labor laws.
Women won the right to vote in Washington in 1910, in California in 1911, and in Oregon in 1912. In March 1913, Woods was among the first women in Oregon to register to vote. She then began working towards national women’s suffrage because most other states had not yet passed legislation that allowed women the right to vote. Nationally, women did not have the right to vote until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. Woods continued to fight for world peace, women, and the poor well into her old age. She was admitted to OSH in 1930 and died a year and half later. The cause of death was an ovarian cyst and “senile psychosis."
Original sheet music
and a modern arrangement
You can download a PDF scan of the original sheet music, and, PDF files of a new multi-part arrangement with the lyrics, and the introduction that we have prepared from the original sheet music.
You can listen to an instrumental MP3 of the short into, and a partial instrumental example of the song itself so you can get an idea what our arrangement sounds like. (Note - The multiple parts can be used in various combinations in any arrangement you might create).
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Lyrics
1. Midst evergreen trees, Unfurled to every breeze-
Behold the Flag of Peace - World Flag of Peace!
It is the Red Blood's Flow! It is the Oranges Glow!
It is the Yellow Light of Wayside Stone! It is the Green Leaf's tone!
Purple the Violet's Own Sweet Benison
Red, Orange. Yellow! Green, Blue, Purple and Violet -
God wove the Colors All in One.2. Flow on! White Flowing Flag! Glow on! White Radiant Flag!
Mighty Omnipotent World Flag of Peace!
We are all World Weaver, We are all World Weavers,
We are all World Weavers in God's Great Plan.
Weave all the Nations in, Weave all the Races in,
Weave all the Erring in - We've but be-gun.3.God wove the colors in. He gives us Light to Limn,
His Heavenly Radiance into World Peace.
Let all the People Sing!
Let all the Glad World Ring!
Let All Light Forces
Cling in Benediction.4. Woo on! White Flowing Flag! Woo on! While Radiant Flag!
Mighty~ Transmuting-Soul Flag of Peace!
We are all World Weavers, We are all World Weavers,
We are all World Weavers in Paradise.
We are all believers, We are all believers,
We are all believers in Paradise.5. We are all the World Tide, We are all the World Tide,
We are all the World Tide of World Peace.
Woo on! White Flowing Tide! Woo on! White Rainbow Tide,
Mighty - Transmuting - Soul Tide of Pence!
All Hail! White Flowing Peace! All Hail! White Growing Peace!
All Hail! Resplendent Peace-Light of All Souls.
