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Posted on December 7, 2012.

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Can you hear the echoing ring

A century of bells sing to their steeples

We will, on this three-headed hill,

Soon see the gnat become the eagle.

Crowning the city of Montreal is a hill, Mount Royal, with three peaks: Westmount, Colline d’Outremont (or Mount Murray), and Colline de la Croix (also called Mount Royal proper). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá himself gazed out onto to Montreal from atop the highest of these a hundred years ago, having taken the now-defunct Mount Royal Funicular from Fletcher’s Field (Parc Jeanne-Mance) to the East-End Lookout.

Commemorating the centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit, The Brothers Farr composed an original song, “Three-Headed Hill”. They performed it with Jacques Proulx on violin in St. James Church, where ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gave one of His talks, on September 5, 2012—one hundred years to the day He gave it. Watch above, or check it out on Youtube. If you like what you hear, give their band a like on Facebook.

For here, one hundred years ago,

A mystery none can fathom

Came and uttered the Name

That can create life from a mound of atoms.

"Three Headed Hill" by The Brothers Farr & Jacques Proulx (HD)