416 Christ our God to thee we raise

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:] Christ our God, 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 flower, sun and moon and stars of light, (Refrain)

3 For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight, (Refrain)

4 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild, (Refrain)

5 For the Church which evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore thy pure sacrifice of love, (Refrain)

6 For each perfect gift of thine, to the world so freely given, faith and hope and love divine, peace on earth and joy in heaven. (Refrain)