For the Beauty of the Earth
Hymn composed by
Conrad KocherContextual information
Tune Name
DIX
Tune Name
Text Meter
7.7.7.7.7.7.
10.9.10.9
Song Composer
Conrad KocherHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
The tune DIX was written by Conrad Kocher (1766-1872). He lived most of his adult life in Stuttgart, where he founded the School for Sacred Song and served as organist and choir director at the Stiftskirche. William H. Monk created the current form of DIX by revising and shortening Conrad Kocher's chorale melody for “Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier,” found in Kocher's Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes (1838).
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1835 -1917) wrote this hymn text, which originally had eight stanzas. According to Bert Pollman, Pierpoint wrote this text after gazing at the Avon River winding its way through the countryside outside of his native city of Bath, England and being “inspired by the view to think about God's gifts in creation and in the church.”
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Lyrics
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.
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.
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.
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.
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