Shirley Murray wrote this hymn for prisoners of conscience that is in Alleluia Aotearoa. The Church of Scotland provides commentary:
The work of Shirley Erena Murray, A former Methodist, now an ‘ecumenical Presbyterian’ (b.1931 in Aotearoa / New Zealand), appears in hymn books all over the world. The themes of her hymns … range from social justice, peace, human rights and the voice of women, to the sacraments, the Church year, and eco-theology. This hymn … was written to fill a gap in the hymn vocabulary, for a service for prisoners of conscience as part of Amnesty International’s campaign against torture (1980).
The text is at Hope Publications where they provide two settings.
The first is FU DE WEN-NUAN by Lim Swee Hong. It says to play with vigor but I think my backing with its made up chords is a bit of a fail – just sing along to learn it.
The other setting is the one also in Alleluia Aotearoa, TREDEGAR by Guthrie Foote. Thankfully, this song is also in Together In Song 657, so I had the chords.
It is also set to PICARDY:
Goodness, these clips says you can also set it to RHUDDLAN.
PICARDY:
TREDEGAR