For the Beauty of the Earth

For the Beauty of the Earth

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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies,
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For the love which from our birth over and around us lies,
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Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grate ful praise.

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For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night,
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Hill and vale, and tree, and flower, sun and moon and stars of light,
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Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grate ful praise.

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For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s de light,
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For the mystic har mo ny linking sense to sound and sight,
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Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grate ful praise.

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For the joy of hu man love, brother, sister, pa rent child,
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Friends on earth and friends a bove, for all gentle thoughts and mild,
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Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grate ful praise.

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For each perfect gift of Thine to our race so free ly giv’n,
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Graces human and di vine, flow’rs of earth and buds of heav’n.
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Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grate ful praise.

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