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| For The Beauty Of The Earth |
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| For the beauty of the earth |
| For the glory of the skies, |
| 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 grateful praise. |
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| 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; |
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| For the joy of ear and eye, |
| For the heart and mind's delight, |
| For the mystic harmony, |
| Linking sense to sound and sight; |
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| For the joy of human love, |
| Brother, sister, parent, child, |
| Friends on earth and friends above, |
| For all gentle thoughts and mild; |
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| For thy church, that evermore |
| Lifteth holy hands above, |
| Offering up on every shore |
| Her pure sacrifice of love; |
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| For thyself, best Gift Divine, |
| To the world so freely given, |
| For that great, great love of thine, |
| Peace on earth, and joy in heaven: |
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