A beautiful new setting of this beloved hymn with added text (verse 4) by Mark R. Fotheringham. Musical setting by Kevin G. Pace.  This piece has a minimum purchase requirement of 7 copies. The price is set low to enable you to purchase enough copies for your choir. For larger choirs, please purchase sufficient copies (at least one copy for each two choir members).

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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,

[Chorus]

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

2. For the beauty of each hour

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r,

Sun and moon, and stars of light,

3. For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth, and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild,

4. For the ones who came before,

Those who paved now well worn ways,

Watching from a distant shore,

Whom we’ll greet at end of days.