For the Beauty of the Earth

𝄞: C,D,E 🕑: 4/4 CCLI: 43200 url 🖉 Conrad Kocher, Folliott S. Pierpoint © 1864 Public Domain

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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies

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For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies

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Lord of all, to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise

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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies

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For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies

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Lord of all, to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise

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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies

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For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies

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Lord of all, to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise

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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

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For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight

For the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight.

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For the joy of hu-man love, brother sister parent child

Friends on earth and friends a-bove, for all gen-tle thoughts and mild

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For Thy Church that e-ver-more, lift-eth ho-ly hands a-bove

Off-ering up on ev-ery shore, her pure sac-ri-fice of love

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For Thy-self best gift di-vine, to our race so free-ly given

For that great great love of Thine, peace on earth and joy in heaven