Grateful praise

Our Father, fill our hearts, we pray,

With gratitude Thanksgiving Day;

For food and raiment Thou dost give,

That we in comfort here may live.

- Luther Cross, Thanksgiving Day

For the beauty of the earth

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

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.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise!

- Folliott S. Pierpoint