Text 1For beauty of meadows, for grandeur of trees,For flowers of woodlands, for creatures of seas,For all You created and gave us to share,We praise You, Creator, extolling your care. 2As stewards of beauty received at Your hand,As creatures who hear Your most urgent command,We turn from our wasteful destruction of life,Confessing our failures, confessing…
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Text 1For the beauty of the earth,for the glory of the skies,for the love which from our birthover and around us lies;Lord of all, to Thee we raisethis our grateful song of praise. 2For the joy of human love,brother, sister, parent, child,friends on earth and friends above,Pleasures pure and undefiled,Lord of all, to Thee we…
Text 1For sunrise hope and sunset calm, and all that lies between,For all the sweetness and the balm that is and that has been,For comradeship for peace in strife, and light on darkened days;For work to do and strength for life we sing our hymn of praise. 2But O, we press far, far above these…
Text 1We plow the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land,But it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand.He sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain,The breezes and the sunshine, and soft refreshing rain. RefrainAll good gifts around usAre sent from heaven above;Then thank the Lord, O thank…
Text 1Let all things now living a song of thanksgivingTo God the Creator triumphantly raise,Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us,Who guideth us on to the end of our days.His banners are o’er us, His light goes before us,A pillar of fire shining forth in the night,‘Til shadows have vanished and darkness is…
Text 1For the fruits of His creation, thanks be to God;For the gifts to every nation, thanks be to God;For the plowing, sowing, reaping,Silent growth while men are sleeping,Future needs in earth’s safe keeping, thanks be to God! 2In the just reward of labor, God’s will is done;In the hop we give our neighbor, God’s…
Text 1Every flow’r that grows, Every brook that flows,Tell of beauty God has giv’n for me:Throughout my life may beauty beDeep within a heart from sin set free. 2Gracious Lord above, Looking down in love,Guide my thoughts, my life, in my walk with Thee,That day by day the world may seeChrist, the Lord and Savior,…
Text 1God, who stretched the spangled heavensInfinite in time and place,Flung the suns in burning radianceThrough the silent fields of space;We, Your children in Your likeness,Share inventive powers with You;Great Creator, still creating,Show us what we yet may do. 2We have ventured worlds undreamed ofSince the childhood of our race;Knowing the ecstasy of wingingThrough untraveled…
Text 1The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue, ethereal sky,And spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their great Original proclaim.Th’unwearied sun from day to dayDoes his Creator’s power display,And publishes to every landThe work of an almighty hand 2Soon as the evening shades prevail,The moon takes up the wondrous tale;And nightly to the listening earthRepeats the…
Text 1Nature with open volume stands,To spread its Maker’s praise abroad;And every labor of His handsShows something worthy of our God. 2But in the grace that rescued usHis brightest form of glory shines;‘Tis fairest drawn upon the crossIn precious blood and crimson lines. 3Here His whole name appears complete.Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove,Which…