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485. Praise to God, immortal praise

1 Praise to God, immortal praise
For the Love that crowns our days!
Bounteous source of every joy,
Let Thy praise our tongues employ!

2 For the blessing of the field,
For the stores the gardens yield;
Flocks that whiten all the plain;
Yellow sheaves of ripened grain:

3 All that spring, with bounteous hand,
Scatters o’er the smiling land;
All that liberal autumn pours
From her overflowing stores:

4 These to Thee, my God! we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow!
And for these my soul shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Praise to God, immortal praise
Author: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1772)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1917
Topic: Times and Seasons: Harvest
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: GOTT SEI DANK DURCH ALLE WELT
Meter: 7 7, 7 7
Key: D Major
Source: Freylinghausen's Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704
Notes: Public Domain.



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