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All Creatures, Worship God Most High
Author: Saint Francis of Assisi; William H. Draper Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 265 hymnals Topics: Animals; Animals Lyrics: 1 *All creatures worship God most high,
lift up your voice in earth and sky,
alleluia, alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam,
thou silver moon with softer gleam,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
2 Thou rushing wind that art so strong,
ye clouds that sail in heav’n along,
alleluia, alleluia!
Thou rising morn in praise rejoice,
ye lights of evening, find a voice,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
3 Thou flowing water, pure and clear,
make music for thy God to hear,
alleluia, alleluia!
Thou fire so masterful and bright,
that givest all both warmth and light,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
4 Dear mother earth, who day by day,
unfoldest blessings on our way,
alleluia, alleluia!
The flow’rs and fruits that in thee grow,
let them God’s glory also show,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
5 And ev’ryone, with tender heart,
forgiving others, take your part,
alleluia, alleluia!
Ye who long pain and sorrow bear,
sing praise and cast on God your care,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
6 And thou, most kind and gentle death,
waiting to hush our final breath,
alleluia, alleluia!
Thou leadest home the child of God,
as Christ before that way hath trod,
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
7 Let all things their Creator bless,
and worship God in humbleness,
alleluia, alleluia!
To God all thanks and praise belong!
Join in the everlasting song:
O sing ye, O sing ye, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
*Or, “All creatures of our God and King, / lift up your voice and with us sing” Scripture: Job 12:7-10 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN Text Sources: “Laudato sia Dio mio Signore,” 1225; trans. William H. Draper (England), Hymns of the Spirit, 1926, alt.
All Creatures, Worship God Most High
Kindness to Animals
Author: Gisborn Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Kindness to Animals First Line: Turn, turn the hasty foot aside
Kindness to Animals
How Great Is Our God
Author: Chris Tomlin; Jesse Reeves; Ed Cash Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Animals and Birds; Animals and Birds First Line: The splendor of the King Refrain First Line: How great is our God! Scripture: 1 Chronicles 16:31 Used With Tune: HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
How Great Is Our God
God of the Sparrow
Author: Jaroslav J. Vajda Meter: 9.6.7.7 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: God of the sparrow God of the whale Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: ROEDER
God of the Sparrow
Little Things That Run and Quail
Author: James Stephens Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Kindness to Animals Used With Tune: THORNWOOD
Little Things That Run and Quail
Touch the Earth Lightly
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Animals and Birds; Animals and Birds First Line: Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently,
nourish the life of the world in our care:
gift of great wonder, ours to surrender,
trust for the children tomorrow will bear.
2 We who endanger, who create hunger,
agents of death for all creatures that live,
we who would foster clouds of disaster,
God of our planet, forestall and forgive!
3 Let there be greening, birth from the burning,
water that blesses and air that is sweet,
health in God's garden, hope in God's children,
regeneration that peace will complete.
4 God of all living, God of all loving,
God of the seedling, the snow, and the sun,
teach us, deflect us, Christ, reconnect us,
using us gently and making us one. Scripture: Genesis 1:26-30 Used With Tune: AI HU
Touch the Earth Lightly
O Day of Peace
Author: Carl P. Daw Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: O day of peace that dimly shines Lyrics: 1 O day of peace that dimly shines
through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,
guide us to justice, truth, and love,
delivered from our selfish schemes.
May swords of hate fall from our hands,
our hearts from envy find release,
till by God’s grace our warring world
shall see Christ’s promised reign of peace.
2 Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb,
nor shall the fierce devour the small;
as beasts and cattle calmly graze,
a little child shall lead them all.
Then enemies shall learn to love,
all creatures find their true accord;
the hope of peace shall be fulfilled,
for all the earth shall know the Lord. Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-4 Used With Tune: JERUSALEM
O Day of Peace
The Friendly Beasts
Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: Jesus, our Brother, strong and good Used With Tune: [Jesus, our Brother, strong and good] Text Sources: Twelfth-Century Carol, alt.
The Friendly Beasts
Morning Has Broken
Author: Eleanor Farjeon Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: Animals Scripture: Genesis 1:1-19 Used With Tune: BUNESSAN Text Sources: Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt.
Morning Has Broken
Sing Praise to God, You Heavens! (Psalm 148)
Author: Herman G. Stuempfle Jr. Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: Sing praise to God, you heavens! Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN
Sing Praise to God, You Heavens! (Psalm 148)
We Wait the Peaceful Kingdom
Author: Kathleen R. Moore Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Lyrics: 1 We wait the peaceful kingdom,
when wolf and lamb shall lie
in gentleness and friendship
without a fear or sigh,
when lion shall be grazing,
when snake shall never strike;
a little child shall lead us
both strong and weak alike.
2 Where is the peaceful kingdom?
When will this new day start?
We long for peace and comfort
to reign within each heart.
Yet not in our lives only,
nor simply in our home:
we pray that all creation
will one day find shalom.
3 When wars of desolation
and hate come to an end,
when nation meets with nation
and calls the other "friend,"
still peace in all its fullness
will only have begun:
shalom for all creation
begins with justice done.
4 That little child shall lead us
to walk the chosen way,
to share the peaceful kingdom,
to greet God's newborn day.
The child born in a stable
is sent to break our chains,
to bring through word and table
the day when justice reigns. Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-4 Used With Tune: MERLE’S TUNE
We Wait the Peaceful Kingdom
The Lone, Wild Bird
Author: H. R. MacFayden, 1877-1964 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: The lone, wild bird in lofty flight Lyrics: 1 The lone, wild bird in lofty flight
is still with thee, nor leaves thy sight.
And I am thine! I rest in thee.
Great spirit come and rest in me.
2 The ends of earth are in thy hand,
the sea’s dark deep and far-off land.
And I am thine! I rest in thee.
Great spirit come and rest in me. Used With Tune: PROSPECT
The Lone, Wild Bird
Peace for the Children
Author: Doreen Lankshear-Smith Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Animals and Birds; Animals and Birds First Line: Peace for the children, peace, peace Used With Tune: PEACE FOR ALL
Peace for the Children
O Father, the Maker of Beautiful Things
Author: Percy Dearmer Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals; Farm and Farm Animals Lyrics: 1 O Father, the maker of beautiful things,
Like roses and daisies and butterflies' sings,
And mountains and forests, and water and show;
All show us thy love for thou makest them so.
2 All creatures are thin in the world and beyond,
The bee in the pollen, the fish in the pond,
The fox in his burrow, the bird on the bough:
All show us thy love for thou makest them so.
3 The lambs and the calves and the fols that are born,
The beans and potatoes, the roots and the corn,
The apple and cherry trees, row after row:
All show us thy love for thou makest them so. Used With Tune: [O Father, the maker of beautiful things]
O Father, the Maker of Beautiful Things
My Kitty
Author: Helen Bayley Davis Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: My kitty has a little song Lyrics: 1 My kitty has a little song
She hums inside of her;
She curls up by the kitchen stove
And then begins to purr.
2 It sounds just like she's winding up
A tiny clock she keeps
Inside her beautiful fur coat
To wake her, when she sleeps. Used With Tune: [My kitty has a little song] Text Sources: "The Christian Advocate." Original title "Song for a Child"
My Kitty
God Speaks to Us in Bird and Song
Author: Joseph Johnson Meter: 8.8.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Animals Lyrics: 1 God speaks to us in bird and song,
in winds that drift the clouds along,
above the din and toil of wrong,
a melody of love.
2 God speaks to us in far and near,
in peace of home and friends most dear,
from faded past and present clear,
a melody of love.
3 God speaks to us in darkest night,
by quiet ways through mornings bright,
when shadows fall with evening light,
a melody of love.
4 O Voice divine, speak unto me,
beyond the earth, beyond the sea,
and let me echo joyfully
a melody of love. Scripture: Psalm 19:1-6 Used With Tune: EVENING LIGHT
God Speaks to Us in Bird and Song
What Is This Life
Author: William Henry Davies, 1869-1941 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: What is this life if, full of care Lyrics: 1 What is this life if, full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare –
no time to stand beneath the boughs
and stare as long as sheep or cows;
2 No time to see, when woods we pass,
where squirrels hide their nuts in grass –
no time to see, in broad daylight,
streams full of stars, like skies at night;
3 No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
and watch her feet, how they can dance.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Used With Tune: DEVOTION
What Is This Life
Rise and Shine
Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Children Animals First Line: The Lord said to Noah, "There's gonna be a floody, floody" Refrain First Line: So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory Lyrics: 1 The Lord said to Noah,
"There's gonna be a floody, floody."
Lord said to Noah,
"There's gonna be a floody, floody.
The whole world is gonna be muddy, muddy,"
Children of the Lord!
Refrain:
So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory.
Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory.
Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory,
Children of the Lord!
2 God said to Noah,
"You better build an arky, arky."
God said to Noah,
"You better build an arky, arky.
Build it out of birchy barky, barky,"
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
3 The animals came on board,
They came by twosies, twosies,
Animals came on board,
They came by twosies, twosies,
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies,
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
4 It rained and rained
For forty nights and daysies, daisies.
Rained and rained
For forty nights and daysies, daisies.
Almost drove those animals crazy, crazy,
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
5 Noah, he looked up
And saw a dovey, dovey.
Noah, he looked up
And saw a dovey, dovey.
Saw it up in heaven abovey, 'bovey.
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
6 The sun came out
And dried up the landy, landy,
Sun came out
And dried up the landy, landy.
Everything was fine and dandy, dandy,
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
7 The animals came off,
Came off by threesies, threesies,
Animals came off,
Came off by threesies, threesies.
They heard about those
Birds and beesies, beesies,
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
8 This is the end of,
The end of my story, story,
This is the end of,
The end of my story, story.
Everytthing is
Hunky-dory, dory.
Children of the Lord! [Refrain]
Scripture: Genesis 6-8 Used With Tune: [The Lord said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody, floody] Text Sources: Traditional African-American spiritual
Rise and Shine
Now Light Is Less
Author: Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: Now light is less; moon skies are wide and deep Used With Tune: SURSUM CORDA
Now Light Is Less
When Twilight Comes
Author: Moises B. Andrade; James Minchin Meter: 8.8.9.9.9.7.7.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: When twilight comes and the sun sets Scripture: Psalm 57:1 Used With Tune: DAPIT HAPON
When Twilight Comes
Tree of Life
Author: SaeJin Lee Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: [Tree of Life]
Tree of Life
God Made the Tiny Freckled Fish
Author: Carol Christopher Drake Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Lyrics: 1 God made the tiny freckled fish
Who dart like raindrops through the seas,
God made the slow enormous whale
Who dives down deep on stormy days;
2 God made giraffes with long, long necks,
Fireflies and leopards strange and fierce,
The fury, lurching bears and more.
God made the stout rhinoceros.
3 For peacock, monkey, elephant,
The known or strange, but most of all
For making us who see such beasts,
Thanks boe to God for giving all.
Used With Tune: [God made the tiny freckled fish]
God Made the Tiny Freckled Fish
Ngayong nagdadapit hapon (When Twilight Comes)
Author: Moises Andrade; James Minchin Meter: Irregular Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: Ngayong nagdadapit hapon (When twilight comes and the sun sets) Scripture: Matthew 23:37 Used With Tune: DAPIT HAPON
Ngayong nagdadapit hapon (When Twilight Comes)
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 120 hymnals Topics: Animals and Birds; Animals and Birds Refrain First Line: O tidings of comfort and joy Lyrics: 1 God rest you merry, gentlemen,
let nothing you dismay,
for Jesus Christ our Savior
was born upon this day,
to save us all from Satan's power
when we were gone astray.
Refrain:
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
2 In Bethlehem in Judah
this blessed babe was born,
and laid within a manger
upon this blessed morn:
for which his mother Mary
did nothing take in scorn. [Refrain]
3 From God our heavenly Father
a blessed angel came,
and unto certain shepherds
brought tidings of the same,
how that in Bethlehem was born
the Son of God by name. [Refrain]
4 The shepherds at those tidings
rejoiced much in mind,
and left their flocks a-feeding
in tempest, storm, and wind,
and went to Bethlehem straightway,
the blessed babe to find. [Refrain]
5 Now to the Lord sing praises,
all you within this place,
and with true love and brotherhood
each other now embrace;
this holy tide of Christmas
all others doth deface. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:8-13 Used With Tune: GOD REST YOU MERRY Text Sources: Traditional English carol, 18th cent.
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Sing to the Lord a new song
Appears in 1,891 hymnals Topics: Animals Text Sources: Adapt: New Revised Standard Version Bible
Sing to the Lord a new song
Who Built the Ark?
Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: Now didn't old Noah build the ark? Used With Tune: [Now didn't old Noah build the ark] Text Sources: Traditional American
Who Built the Ark?
O Cow, O Cow, What Use Are You?
Author: Satis N. Coleman; Alice G. Thorn Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals; Farm and Farm Animals Used With Tune: [O cow, O cow, what use are you]
O Cow, O Cow, What Use Are You?
Winter Coats
Author: Dorothy Aldis Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals; Farm and Farm Animals First Line: In October, when they know Used With Tune: [In October, when they know]
Winter Coats
A Good Day
Author: Marion James Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals; Farm and Farm Animals First Line: The farm is spilling over Used With Tune: [The farm is spilling over]
A Good Day
Sleepy Song
Author: Marion James Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals; Farm and Farm Animals First Line: Close your eyes and go to sleep Used With Tune: [Close your eyes and go to sleep]
Sleepy Song
God of the Small Things
Author: Marion James Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: God of the rabbits, keep them warm Used With Tune: [God of the rabbits, keep them warm]
God of the Small Things
For Little Things
Author: Margaret Clemens Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: For bunnies and squirrels Used With Tune: HARDWICK
For Little Things
We Celebrate the Web of Life
Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Used With Tune: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
We Celebrate the Web of Life
Where My Free Spirit Onward Leads
Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD
Where My Free Spirit Onward Leads
The Squirrel
Author: Unknown Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: Whisky, frisky Lyrics: 1 Whisky frisky.
Hippity hop;
Up he goes
To the tree top!
2 Whirly, twirly,
Round and round,
Down he scampers
To the ground.
3 Furly, curly,
What a tail!
Tall as a feather
Broad as a sail!
4 Where's his supper?
In the shell,
Snappity, crackity,
Out it fell. Used With Tune: [Whisky, frisky]
The Squirrel
In the Branches of the Forest
Author: David Arkin Meter: 8.9.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Used With Tune: MOUNTAIN ALONE
In the Branches of the Forest
Wild Waves of Storm
Author: Sydney Henry Knight, 1923- Meter: 4.10.10.10.4 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Used With Tune: WILD WAVES
Wild Waves of Storm
Where Gentle Tides Go Rolling By
Author: Richard Fariña Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Used With Tune: ASIA
Where Gentle Tides Go Rolling By
Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
Author: Robert Frost, 1875-1963 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Animals Lyrics: 1 Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today,
and give us not to think so far away
as the uncertain harvest; keep us here
all simply in the springing of the year.
2 Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white
like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
and make us happy in the happy bees,
the swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
3 And make us happy in the darting bird
that suddenly above the bees is heard,
the meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
and off a blossom in mid air stands still.
4 For this is love and nothing else is love,
the which it is reserved for God above
to sanctify to what far ends he will,
but which it only needs that we fulfill. Used With Tune: COOLINGE
Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
하 늘 나 는 새 를 보 라 Haneul naneun saeleul bora (See the Birds That Fly)
Author: Frederick S. Miller; Edward Poitras Meter: 9.7.8.8.8.7.8.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Animals First Line: 너는 먼저 주의 나라 (See the birds that fly through the air) Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34 Used With Tune: SEE THE BIRDS Text Sources: based on Matthew 6:25–34 and Luke 12:22–31
하 늘 나 는 새 를 보 라 Haneul naneun saeleul bora (See the Birds That Fly)
We Dream of a Turning
Author: Adam M. L. Tice Meter: 11.10.13.10 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: We dream of a turning from ages of wrong Refrain First Line: Where true peace is shining as hate rolls away Scripture: Genesis 2:4-25 Used With Tune: LOCH LOMOND
We Dream of a Turning
Give Us a Voice
Author: Mary Louise Bringle, b. 1953 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Care/Concern For animals First Line: When children wake to tears instead of laughter Used With Tune: ISTE CONFESSOR
Give Us a Voice
The Garden Needs Our Tending Now
Author: Mary Louise Bringle Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals Scripture: Genesis 2:4-15 Used With Tune: UNE JEUNE PUCELLE
The Garden Needs Our Tending Now
Light Dawns on a Weary World
Author: Mary Louise Bringle Meter: 7.6.6.7.8 with refrain Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Animals Scripture: Isaiah 35 Used With Tune: TEMPLE OF PEACE
Light Dawns on a Weary World
Peace to You
Author: Adam M. L. Tice Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: Peace to you, my loved ones Scripture: Luke 6:20-26 Used With Tune: LOCKLEY
Peace to You
Some Things We Are Specially Glad About
Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Animals First Line: For the light for my work and play Lyrics: 1 For the light for my work and play,
Thank you, Heav'nly Father.
2 For the dark for my sleep,
Thank you, Heav'nly Father.
3 For my family and friends who care for me,
Thank you, Heav'nly Father.
4 For all the animals that play with me,
Thank you, Heav'nly Father.
5 For all your love by night and day,
Thank you, Heav'nly Father. Used With Tune: [For the light for my work and play] Text Sources: Church School Children, Roanridge, Missouri, alt.; "O Come, Let Us Worship," compiled by The National Town-Country Church Institute of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Some Things We Are Specially Glad About
The christian warrior animated and crowned
Author: Dr. Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Warrior animated and crowned First Line: Hark, 'tis our heavenly leader's voice Lyrics: 1 Hark! 'tis our heavenly leader's voice,
From his triumphant seat;
"Midst the war's tumultuous noise,
How powerful and sweet!
2 "Fight on my faithful band," he cires,
"Nor fear the mortal blow:
"Who first on such a warfare dies,
"Shall speediest victory know.
3 "I have my days of combat known,
"And in the dust was laid:
"But thence I mounted to my throne,
"And glory crowns my head.
4 "That throne, that glory you shall share;
"My hands the crown shall give;
"And you the sparkling honors wear,
"While God himself shall live."
5 Lord, 'tis enough; our souls are fir'd
With courage and with love;
Vain are the assaults of earth and hell;
Our hopes are fix'd above.
Scripture: Revelation 2:10
The christian warrior animated and crowned
