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Text: | For the Beauty of the Earth |
Author: | Folliott S. Pierpoint |
Tune: | DIX |
Composer: | Conrad Kocher |
1 For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Refrain:
Christ, our God, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
2 For the wonder of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon, and stars of light, [Refrain]
3 For the joy of ear and eye,
For the heart and mind's delight,
For the mystic harmony
Linking sense to sound and sight, [Refrain]
4 For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild, [Refrain]
5 For Thy church that evermore
Lifteth holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore
Her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain]
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For the beauty of the earth |
Title: | For the Beauty of the Earth |
Author: | Folliott S. Pierpoint (1864) |
Refrain First Line: | Christ, our God, to thee we raise |
Meter: | 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. |
Publication Date: | 1957 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Worship: Adoration and Praise |
Copyright: | Words copyright. Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press, London. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DIX |
Composer: | Conrad Kocher (1838) |
Meter: | 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. |
Key: | G Major |