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For the Beauty of the Earth
Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, 18365-1917 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #21 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth,
for the splendor of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies:
Source of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
2 For the joy of ear and eye,
for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony
linking sense to sound and sight:
Source of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
3 For the wonder of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale and tree and flower,
sun and moon and stars of light:
Source of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
4 For the joy of human care,
sister, brother, parent, child,
for the kinship we all share,
for all gentle thoughts and mild:
Source of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise. Languages: English Tune Title: DIX
For the Beauty of the Earth
I Am That Great and Fiery Force
Author: Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #27 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 I am that great and fiery force
sparkling in everything that lives;
in shining of the river’s course,
in greening grass that glory gives.
2 I shine in glitter on the seas,
in burning sun, in moon and stars.
In unseen wind, in verdant trees
I breathe within, both near and far.
3 And where I breathe there is no death,
and meadows glow with beauties rife.
I am in all, the spirit’s breath,
the thundered word, for I am Life. Languages: English Tune Title: AVE VERA VIRGINITAS
I Am That Great and Fiery Force
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Author: Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #29 (1993) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee,
God of glory, God of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before thee,
hail thee as the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
drive the pain of doubt away;
giver of immortal gladness,
fill us with the joy of day.
2 All thy works with joy surround thee,
earth and heav’n reflect thy rays,
stars and planets sing around thee,
center of unbroken praise;
field and forest, vale and mountain, blossoming meadow, flashing sea,
chanting bird and flowing fountain
call us to rejoice in thee.
3 Thou art giving and forgiving,
ever blessing, ever blest;
wellspring of the joy of living,
ocean-depth of happy rest.
Ever singing march we onward,
victors in the midst of strife;
joyful music lifts us sunward
in the triumph song of life. Languages: English Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Morning Has Broken
Author: Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #38 (1993) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 Morning has broken
like the first morning,
blackbird has spoken
like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them, springing
fresh from the Word!
2 Sweet the rain’s new fall
sunlit from heaven,
like the first dewfall
on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness
of the wet garden,
sprung in completeness
where God’s feet pass.
3 Mine is the sunlight!
Mine is the morning
born of the one light
Eden saw play!
Praise with elation,
praise every morning,
God’s recreation
of the new day! Languages: English Tune Title: BUNESSAN
Morning Has Broken
Morning, So Fair to See
Author: Vincent B. Silliman, 1894-1979 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #42 (1993) Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.8 Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 Morning, so fair to see,
night, veiled in mystery —
glorious the earth and resplendent skies!
Pilgrims, we march along,
singing our joyous song,
as through an earthly paradise.
2 Tall are the verdant trees;
deep are the flashing seas;
glorious each wonder the seasons bring.
Brighter is faith’s surmise,
shining in pilgrim eyes,
from which our waking spirits spring.
3 Age after age we rise,
‘neath the eternal skies,
into the light from the shadowed past:
still shall our pilgrim song,
buoyant and brave and strong,
resound while life and mountains last. Languages: English Tune Title: SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU
Morning, So Fair to See
In Sweet Fields of Autumn
Author: Elizabeth Madison, b. 1883 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #52 (1993) Meter: 12.12.12.12 Topics: Nature and the Countryside First Line: In sweet fields of autumn the gold grain is falling Lyrics: 1 In sweet fields of autumn the gold grain is falling,
the white clouds drift lonely, the wild swan is calling.
Alas for the daisies, the tall fern and grasses,
when wind-sweep and rainfall fill lowlands and passes.
2 The snows of December shall fill windy hollow;
the bleak rain trails after, the March wind shall follow.
The deer through the valleys leave print of their going;
and diamonds of sleet mark the ridges of snowing.
3 The stillness of death shall stoop over the water,
the plover sweep low where the pale streamlets falter;
but deep in the earth clod the black seed is living;
when spring sounds her bugles for rousing and giving. Languages: English Tune Title: CRADLE SONG
In Sweet Fields of Autumn
I Walk the Unfrequented Road
Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1840-1929 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #53 (1993) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 I walk the unfrequented road
with open eye and ear;
I watch afield the farmer load
the bounty of the year.
2 I filch the fruit of no one’s toil —
no trespasser am I —
and yet I reap from every soil
and from the boundless sky.
3 I gather where I did not sow,
and bend the mystic sheaf,
the amber air, the river’s flow,
the rustle of the leaf.
4 A beauty springtime never knew
haunts all the quiet ways,
and sweeter shines the landscape through
its veil of autumn haze.
5 I face the hills, the streams, the wood,
and feel with all akin;
my heart expands; their fortitude
and peace and joy flow in. Languages: English Tune Title: CONSOLATION
I Walk the Unfrequented Road
Now Light Is Less
Author: Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #54 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Nature and the Countryside First Line: Now light is less; moon skies are wide and deep Languages: English Tune Title: SURSUM CORDA
Now Light Is Less
In Time of Silver Rain
Author: Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #60 (1993) Meter: 6.8.10.10.6 Topics: Nature and the Countryside Lyrics: 1 In time of silver rain
the earth puts forth new life again,
green grasses grow and flowers lift their heads,
and over all the plain the wonder spreads
of life, of life, of life!
2 In time of silver rain
the butterflies lift silken wings,
and trees put forth new leaves to sing in joy
beneath the sky in time of silver rain,
when spring and life are new.
Languages: English Tune Title: LANGSTON
In Time of Silver Rain
Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
Author: Robert Frost, 1875-1963 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #64 (1993) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Nature and the Countryside 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. Languages: English Tune Title: COOLINGE
Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
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