For the Beauty of the Earth

For the beau­ty of the earth

For the glo­ry of the skies

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

Lord of all

to Thee we raise

*

This our hymn of grate­ful 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.

For the joy of ear and eye

For the heart and mind’s de­light

For the mys­tic har­mo­ny

Linking sense to sound and sight.

For the joy of hu­man love

Brother

sis­ter

par­ent

child

Friends on earth and friends ab­ove

For all gen­tle thoughts and mild.

For Thy Church

that ev­er­more

Lifteth ho­ly hands ab­ove

Offering up on ev­ery shore

Her pure sac­ri­fice of love.

For the mar­tyrs’ crown of light

For Thy pro­phets’ ea­gle eye

For Thy bold con­fess­ors’ might

For the lips of in­fan­cy.

For Thy vir­gins’ robes of snow

For Thy maid­en mo­ther mild

For Thy­self

with hearts aglow

Jesu

Vic­tim un­de­filed.

For each per­fect gift of Thine

To our race so free­ly given

Graces hu­man and di­vine

Flowers of earth and buds of Heav­en.

*Originally:Christ our God

to Thee we raise