For The Beauty Of The Earth

"To everything there is a season, and a time

for every matter or purpose under heaven."

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Butterflies On Flowers

For the beauty of the earth

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

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.

Night Sky Over The Sonora Desert

Sonora Desert National Monument

Maricopa and Pinal County

Arizona

For the joy of ear and eye,

For the heart and mind's delight,

For the mystic harmony

Linking sense to sound and sight.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Mother's Love
Akiane Kramarik

For Thy Church, that evermore

Lifteth holy hands above,

Offering up on every shore

Her pure sacrifice of love.

For the martyrs' crown of light,

For Thy prophets' eagle eye,

For Thy bold confessors' might,

For the lips of infancy.

"I am not ashamed of the Gospel!"
 Displaced Christian Children In Nigeria

For Thy virgins' robes of snow,

For Thy maidens mother mild

For Thyself, with hearts aglow,

Jesu, Victim undefiled.

For each perfect gift of Thine,

To race so freely given,

Graces human and divine,

Flowers of earth and buds of Heaven

Cheerful Sunflowers In Bloom
(Kansas State Flower)

"For The Beauty Of The Earth"

(1864)

Folliet S. Pierpont

(1835-1917)

English hymn writer