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<h2>FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.” Isaiah 6:4</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_p_i_pierpoint_fs.html" target="_blank">Folliot Sandford Pierpoint</a>, in Reverend Orby Shipley’s <em>Lyra Eucharistica</em>, second edition, 1864; original title: “The Sacrifice of Praise.”</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Dix,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_k_o_kocher_c.html" target="_blank">Conrad Kocher</a>, 1838 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_d_dix.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“England’s Lane,” English melody, adapted by Geoffrey Shaw, 1919 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_e_engllane.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Ratisbon,” Johann Gottlob Werner’s <em>Choralbuch zu den neuen protestantischen Gesangbüchern</em> (Leipzig, Germany: 1815); <a>(</a></p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_r_ratisbon.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>For the beauty of the earth<br>
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For the glory of the skies,<br>
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For the love which from our birth<br>
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Over and around us lies.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p class="refrain">Lord of all, to Thee we raise,<br>
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This our hymn of grateful praise.</p>
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<p>For the beauty of each hour,<br>
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Of the day and of the night,<br>
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Hill and vale, and tree and flower,<br>
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Sun and moon, and stars of light.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>For the joy of ear and eye,<br>
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For the heart and mind’s delight,<br>
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For the mystic harmony<br>
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Linking sense to sound and sight.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>For the joy of human love,<br>
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Brother, sister, parent, child,<br>
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Friends on earth and friends above,<br>
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For all gentle thoughts and mild.</p>
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<p>For Thy Church, that evermore<br>
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Lifteth holy hands above,<br>
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Offering upon every shore<br>
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Her pure sacrifice of love.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>For the martyrs’ crown of light,<br>
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For Thy prophets’ eagle eye,<br>
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For Thy bold confessors’ might,<br>
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For the lips of infancy.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>For Thy virgins’ robes of snow,<br>
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For Thy maiden mother mild,<br>
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For Thyself, with hearts aglow,<br>
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Jesu, Victim undefiled.</p>
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<p>For Thyself, best Gift Divine,<br>
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To the world so freely given,<br>
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For that great, great love of Thine,<br>
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Peace on earth and joy in heaven.</p>
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