For the Beauty of the Earth
(source: "Rise Up Singing", Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, 1992.)
- For the beauty of the earth,
- For the glory of the skies,
- For the love from which our birth,
- Over and around us lies;
- Lord of all, to Thee we raise
- This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the wonder 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.
For 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.