Voices United ‎#226

226. For the Beauty of the Earth

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

[Refrain:]
God of all, to you we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.

2 For the beauty 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 human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild, [Refrain]

4 For each perfect gift sublime
to our race so freely given;
graces human and divine,
flowers of earth and buds of heaven. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: For the beauty of the earth
• Title: For the Beauty of the Earth
• Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1864, alt.)
• Refrain First Line: God of all, to you we raise
• Meter: 7 7 7 7 7 7
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: God: Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and praise; Arts and Literature; Beauty; Brotherhood/Sisterhood; Choruses and Refrains; Communion of Saints; Community; Creation; Ecology; Family; Friendship; God: Creator; God: Grace; Gratitude; Holy Communion; Home and Family; Jesus Christ: Lord of Life; Joy; Life; Love; Morning; Nature; Peace (World); Processionals (Opening of Worship); Responses: Antiphonal; Rogation; Rural Life; Seasons: Changing; Time; Unity; World; Worship; Easter 6: Year A; Trinity Sunday: Year A; Proper 12: Year A; Proper 17: Year B; Proper 22: Year B; Epiphany 2: Year C; Trinity Sunday: Year C; Proper 21: Year C; Thanksgiving: Year C
• Notes: Alt tune: DIX

Tune Information

• Name: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE
• Composer: David Evans (1927)
• Meter: 7 7 7 7 7 7
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Music used by permission of Oxford University Press.