Thanksgiving
For The Beauty Of The Earth
- Words:
- Folliot S. Pierpoint, 1864. Music: 'Dix' Conrad Kocher, 1838. Setting: "The English Hymnal", 1906.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7 7 7
- 1For the beauty of the earthFor the glory of the skies,For the love which from our birthOver and around us lies.Lord of all, to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
- 2For 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.Lord of all, to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
- 3For the joy of ear and eye,For the heart and mind's delight,For the mystic harmonyLinking sense to sound and sight.Lord of all, to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
- 4For the joy of human love,Brother, sister, parent, child,Friends on earth and friends above,For all gentle thoughts and mild.Lord of all, to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
- 5For Thy Church, that evermoreLifteth holy hands above,Off'ring up on every shoreHer pure sacrifice of love.Lord of all, to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
- 6For the martyrs' crown of light,For Thy prophets' eagle eye,For Thy bold confessors' might,For the lips of infancy.
- 7For Thy virgins' robes of snow,For Thy maiden mother mild,For Thyself, with hearts aglow,Jesu, Victim undefiled.
- 8For each perfect gift of Thine,To our race so freely given,Graces human and divine,Flowers of earth and buds of Heaven.
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- Written in 1864, the words are in 725 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Dix, is in 1,079 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.