For the beauty of our earth

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Title: For the beauty of our earth
Text: Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1864, alt. v.5 Kenan Schaefkofer, 2021
Tune: DIX
Music: Conrad Kocher, 1838
Key: A major
Meter: 77.77.77
Date Added: 2021/01/05

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For the beauty of our earth, for the glory of her skies,
for the love which from our birth over and around us lies:

  Source of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night,
hill and vale and tree and flow'r, sun and moon and stars of light:

  Source of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight,
For the 'me', 'myself', and 'I', conscious links to sound and sight:

  Source of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human care, sibling, partner, parent, child,
friends we've lost and friends still here, for all selfless thoughts and mild:

  Source of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For thy Truth both harsh and kind, shadowed setter of our stage,
patterns sought by human mind, writ, revised from age to age,

  Source of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

Alternate words

As with gladness men of old Praise to God, immortal praise God of mercy, God of grace