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For The Beauty Of The Earth

Tune: Dix

For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,

Refrain:
Christ our God, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.

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

For the joy of ear and eye,
For the heart and mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony
Linking sense to sound and sight:

Refrain

For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild:

Refrain

For each perfect gift of thine
To our race so freely given,
Graces human and divine,
Flowers of earth and buds of heaven:

Refrain

For thy church that evermore
Lifteth holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore
This pure sacrifice of love:

Refrain

Words: F.S. Pierpoint (1835-1917) altd. Copyright has expired. Permission to reproduce this text is not required.

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