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Text: | For the Beauty of the Earth |
Author: | F. S. Pierpoint |
Tune: | DIX |
Composer: | C. Kocher |
Composer (desc.): | S. H. Nicholson |
1 For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies,
Refrain:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
2 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]
3 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]
4 For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above;
for all gentle thoughts and mild, [Refrain]
5 For the Church that evermore
lifteth holy hands above,
off'ring up on every shore
her pure sacrifice of love, (Refrain)
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For the beauty of the earth |
Title: | For the Beauty of the Earth |
Author: | F. S. Pierpoint (1867, adapt.) |
Refrain First Line: | Lord of all, to thee we raise |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Family; Home; Processional Hymns(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DIX |
Composer: | C. Kocher (1838) |
Composer (desc.): | S. H. Nicholson |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.77 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | C. Kocher chorale, adapted 1861 from |
Copyright: | Descant used by permission of The Royal School of Church Music |