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.

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 the mar­tyrs’ crown of light,
For Thy pro­phets’ ea­gle eye,
For Thy bold con­fess­ors’ might,
For the lips of in­fan­cy.

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For Thy vir­gins’ robes of snow,
For Thy maid­en mo­ther mild,
For Thy­self, with hearts aglow,
Jesu, Vic­tim un­de­filed.

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For each per­fect gift of Thine,
To our race so free­ly given,
Graces hu­man and di­vine,
Flowers of earth and buds of Hea­ven.

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*Originally, Christ our God, to Thee we raise