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Lord of all, to thee we raise

Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1835-1917) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 633 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, Refrain: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise. 2 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: [Refrain] 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, pleasures pure and undefiled: [Refrain] 4 For each perfect gift of thine, to our race so freely given, graces human and divine, flowers of earth and buds of heaven: [Refrain] 5 For thy church which evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: ENGLANDS LANE

All things bright and beautiful

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 328 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment First Line: Each little flower that opens Lyrics: Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all. 1 Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, he made their glowing colours, he made their tiny wings: [Refrain] 2 The purple-headed mountain, the river running by, the sunset, and the morning that brightens up the sky: [Refrain] 3 The cold wind in the winter, the pleasant summer sun, the ripe fruits in the garden, he made them every one: [Refrain] 4 The tall trees in the greenwood, the meadows where we play, the rushes by the water we gather every day: [Refrain] 5 He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell how great is God almighty, who has made all things well: [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: ROYAL OAK

O Lord of heaven and earth and sea

Author: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) Meter: 8.8.8.4 Appears in 333 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 O Lord of heaven and earth and sea, to thee all praise and glory be. How shall we show our love to thee who givest all? 2 The golden sunshine, vernal air, sweet flowers and fruit, thy love declare; when harvests ripen, thou art there, who givest all. 3 For peaceful homes, and healthful days, for all the blessings earth displays, we owe thee thankfulness and praise, who givest all. 4 Thou didst not spare thine only Son, but gav'st him for a world undone, and freely with that blessèd One thou givest all. 5 Thou giv'st the Holy Spirit's dower, Spirit of life and love and power, and dost his sevenfold graces shower upon us all. 6 For souls redeemed, for sins forgiven, for means of grace and hopes of heaven, Father, what can to thee be given, who givest all? 7 We lose what on ourselves we spend, we have as treasure without end whatever, Lord, to thee we lend, who givest all. 8 To thee, from whom we all derive our life, our gifts, our power to give: O may we ever with thee live, who givest all. Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:11-14 Used With Tune: ALMSGIVING

Fill your hearts with joy and gladness

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness, sing and praise your God and mine! Great the Lord in love and wisdom, might and majesty divine! He who framed the starry heavens knows and names them as they shine. 2 Praise the Lord, his people, praise him! Wounded souls his comfort know; those who fear him find his mercies, peace for pain and joy for woe; humble hearts are high exalted, human pride and power laid low. 3 Praise the Lord for times and seasons, cloud and sunshine, wind and rain; spring to melt the snows of winter till the waters flow again; grass upon the mountain pastures, golden valleys thick with grain. 4 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness, peace and plenty crown your days; love his laws, declare his judgements, walk in all his words and ways; he the Lord and we his children: praise the Lord, all people, praise! Scripture: Psalm 147 Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm (1866-1960) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 184 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not, as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided, great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 2 Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 8:22 Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS

Morning has broken, like the first morning

Author: Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) Meter: 10.9.10.9 Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: BUNESSAN

The heavens declare thy glory, Lord

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 592 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord; in every star thy wisdom shines; but when our eyes behold thy word, we read thy name in fairer lines. 2 The rolling sun, the changing light, and nights and days, thy power confess; but the blest volume thou hast writ reveals thy justice and thy grace. 3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise round the whole earth, and never stand; so, when thy truth began its race, it touched and glanced on every land. 4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest till through the world thy truth has run; till Christ has all the nations blest that see the light or feel the sun. 5 Great Sun of Righteousness, arise; bless the dark world with heavenly light; thy gospel makes the simple wise, thy laws are pure, thy judgements right. 6 Thy noblest wonders here we view, in souls renewed and sins forgiven: Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew, and make thy word my guide to heaven. Scripture: Psalm 19 Used With Tune: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT

Above the moon earth rises

Author: Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: SALLEY GARDENS

Lord of beauty, thine the splendour

Author: Cyril Argentine Alington (1872-1955) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Scripture: Job 38:1-11 Used With Tune: ST AUDREY

Lord, bring the day to pass

Author: Ian Masson Fraser (b. 1917) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 Lord, bring the day to pass when forest, rock and hill, the beasts, the birds, the grass, will know your finished will: when we attain our destiny and nature lives in harmony. 2 Forgive our careless use of water, ore and soil — the plenty we abuse supplied by others' toil: save us from making self our creed, turn us towards each other's need. 3 Give us, when we release creation's secret powers, to harness them for peace — our children's peace and ours: teach us the art of mastering in servant form, which draws death's sting. 4 Creation groans, travails, futile its present plight, bound — till the hour it hails God's children born of light who enter on their true estate. Come, Lord: new heavens and earth create. Scripture: Romans 8:21-22 Used With Tune: LAWES'S PSALM 47