This poem references lifting one's eyes to the mountains and hills, raising a song like birds on the mountains, rising and shining like the morning, and standing together like mountains and hills. It repeats the line "Spirit of Life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill" at the end of each stanza, suggesting the mountains and hills fill one's heart with the spirit of life.

1. I Lift Mine Eyes Carolyn McDade ©1980 Surtsey Publishing From Rain Upon Dry Land

2. I lift mine eyes, mine eyes to the mountains I lift mine eyes, mine eyes to the hills, oh I lift mine eyes, mine eyes to the mountains Spirit of Life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill

3. We raise our song like birds on the mountains We raise our song like birds on the hills, oh We raise our song like birds on the mountains Spirit of Life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill

4. We rise and shine like morning on the mountains We rise and shine like morning on the hills, oh We rise and shine like morning on the mountains Spirit of Life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill

5. We stand right here, we stand like the mountains We stand right here, we stand like the hills, oh We stand right here, we stand like the mountains Spirit of Life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill

6. Together we stand like mountain after mountain Together we stand like hill after hill, oh Together we stand like mountain after mountain Spirit of life, our hearts fill, our hearts fill