Scripture Verse

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. James 1:17

Introduction

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Fanny Crosby (1820–1915)

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, in Bright Jew­els, by Ro­bert Low­ry et al. (New York: Big­low & Main, 1869).

Music: Will­iam F. Sher­win (🔊 pdf nwc).

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William F. Sherwin (1826–1888)

Lyrics

Let us min­gle our voic­es in cho­rus to­day;
The earth is re­joic­ing, all na­ture is gay,
And the stream in the val­ley goes laugh­ing along;
How happy its beau­ti­ful song.

Refrain

Praise the Lord, the giv­er of all,
Praise the Lord, the giv­er of all;
Let His child­ren with rap­ture His mer­cy recall,
The boun­ti­ful giv­er of all.

There is joy in the sun­beam that spark­es so bright
And calls the young blos­soms to wel­come the light;
And the bird in the green­wood is sing­ing with glee,
As cheer­ful and hap­py as we.

Refrain

Let us join the glad mu­sic and joy­ful­ly raise,
In pur­est de­vo­tion, our ju­bi­lant praise;
We are grate­ful to God for this beau­ti­ful day:
We’ll sing the bright mo­ments away.

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