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William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)

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With hearts responsive	A
And enfranchised eyes	B
We thank Thee Lord	C
For all things beautiful and good and true	D
For things that seemed not good yet turned to good	E
For all the sweet compulsions of Thy will	F
That chased and tried and wrought us to Thy shape	G
For things unnumbered that we take of right	H
And value first when first they are withheld	I
For light and air sweet sense of sound and smell	J
For ears to hear the heavenly harmonies	K
For eyes to see the unseen in the seen	L
For vision of The Worker in the work	M
For hearts to apprehend Thee everywhere	N
We thank Thee Lord	C
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For all the wonders of this wondrous world	O
The pure pearl splendours of the coming day	P
The breaking east the rosy flush the Dawn	Q
For that bright gem in morning's coronal	J
That one lone star that gleams above the glow	J
For that high glory of the impartial sun	R
The golden noonings big with promised life	S
The matchless pageant of the evening skies	B
The wide flung gates the gleams of Paradise	T
Supremest visions of Thine artistry	U
The sweet soft gloaming and the friendly stars	V
The vesper stillness and the creeping shades	W
The moon's pale majesty the pulsing dome	X
Wherein we feel Thy great heart throbbing near	Y
For sweet laborious days and restful nights	Z
For work to do and strength to do the work	M
We thank Thee Lord	C
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For those first tiny prayerful folded hands	A2
That pierce the winter's crust and softly bring	B2
Life out of death the endless mystery	U
For all the first sweet flushings of the Spring	B2
The greening earth the tender heavenly blue	J
The rich brown furrows gaping for the seed	C2
For all Thy grace in bursting bud and leaf	D2
The bridal sweetness of the orchard trees	K
Rose tender in their coming fruitfulness	K
The fragrant snow drifts flung upon the breeze	K
The grace and glory of the fruitless flowers	K
Ambrosial beauty their reward and ours	K
For hedgerows sweet with hawthorn and wildrose	K
For meadows spread with gold and gemmed with stars	K
For every tint of every tiniest flower	E2
For every daisy smiling to the sun	R
For every bird that builds in joyous hope	F2
For every lamb that frisks beside its dam	G2
For every leaf that rustles in the wind	H2
For spiring poplar and for spreading oak	I2
For queenly birch and lofty swaying elm	J2
For the great cedar's benedictory grace	K
For earth's ten thousand fragrant incenses	K
Sweet altar gifts from leaf and fruit and flower	E2
For every wondrous thing that greens and grows	K
For wide spread cornlands billowing golden seas	K
For rippling stream and white laced waterfall	J
For purpling mountains lakes like silver shields	K
For white piled clouds that float against the blue	J
For tender green of far off upland slopes	K
For fringing forests and far gleaming spires	K
For those white peaks serene and grand and still	J
For that deep sea a shallow to Thy love	K2
For round green hills earth's full benignant breasts	K
For sun chased shadows flitting o'er the plain	L2
For gleam and gloom for all life's counter change	M2
For hope that quickens under darkening skies	K
For all we see for all that underlies	K
We thank Thee Lord	C
	-
For that sweet impulse of the coming Spring	B2
For ripening Summer and the harvesting	B2
For all the rich Autumnal glories spread	N2
The flaming pageant of the ripening woods	K
The fiery gorse the heather purpled hills	K
The rustling leaves that fly before the wind	H2
And lie below the hedgerows whispering	B2
For meadows silver white with hoary dew	J
For sheer delight of tasting once again	O2
That first crisp breath of winter in the air	N
The pictured pane the new white world without	P2
The sparkling hedgerow's witchery of lace	K
The soft white flakes that fold the sleeping earth	Q2
The cold without the cheerier warmth within	R2
For red heart roses in the winter snows	K
For all the flower and fruit of Christmas tide	S2
For all the glowing heart of Christmas tide	S2
We thank Thee Lord	C
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For all Thy ministries	K
For morning mist and gently falling dew	J
For summer rains for winter ice and snow	J
For whispering wind and purifying storm	T2
For the reft clouds that show the tender blue	J
For the forked flash and long tumultuous roll	J
For mighty rains that wash the dim earth clean	L
For the sweet promise of the seven fold bow	U2
For the soft sunshine and the still calm night	H
For dimpled laughter of soft summer seas	K
For latticed splendour of the sea borne moon	V2
For gleaming sands and granite frontled cliffs	K
For flying spume and waves that whip the skies	K
For rushing gale and for the great glad calm	W2
For Might so mighty and for Love so true	J
With equal mind	H2
We thank Thee Lord	C
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For maiden sweetness and for strength of men	O2
For love's pure madness and its high estate	X2
For parentage man's nearest reach to Thee	U
For kinship sonship friendship brotherhood	E
Of men one Father one great family	U
For glimpses of the greater in the less	K
For touch of Thee in wife and child and friend	Y2
For noble self denying motherhood	E
For saintly maiden lives of rare perfume	Z2
For little pattering feet and crooning songs	K
For children's laughter and sweet wells of truth	A3
For sweet child faces and the sweet wise tongues	K
For childhood's faith that lifts us near to Thee	U
And bows us with our own disparity	U
For childhood's sweet unconscious beauty sleep	B3
For all that childhood teaches us of Thee	U
We thank Thee Lord	C
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For doubts that led us to the larger trust	C3
For ills to conquer for the love that fights	K
For that strong faith that vanquished axe and flame	D3
And gave us Freedom for our heritage	E3
For clouds and darkness and the still small voice	K
For sorrows bearing fruit of nobler life	S
For those sore strokes that broke us at Thy feet	F3
For peace in strife for gain in seeming loss	K
For every loss that wrought the greater gain	L2
For that sweet juice from bitterness out pressed	G3
For all this sweet strange paradox of life	S
We thank Thee Lord	C
	-
For friends above for friends still left below	J
For the rare links invisible between	L
For Thine unsearchable greatness for the vails	K
Between us and the things we may not know	J
For those high times when hearts take wing and rise	K
And float secure above earth's mysteries	K
For that wide open avenue of prayer	N
All radiant with Thy glorious promises	K
For sweet hearts tuned to noblest charity	U
For great hearts toiling in the outer dark	H3
For friendly hands stretched out in time of need	C2
For every gracious thought and word and deed	C2
We thank Thee Lord	C
	-
For songbird answering song on topmost bough	U2
For myriad twitterings of the simpler folk	I2
For that sweet lark that carols up the sky	I3
For that low fluting on the summer night	H
For distant bells that tremble on the wind	H2
For great round organ tones that rise and fall	J
Entwined with earthly voices tuned to heaven	R
And bear our hearts above the high arched roof	J3
For Thy great voice that dominates the whole	J
And shakes the heavens and silences the earth	Q2
For hearts alive to earth's sweet minstrelsies	K
For souls attuned to heavenly harmonies	K
For apprehension and for ears to hear	K3
We thank Thee Lord	C
	-
For that supremest token of Thy Love	K2
Thyself made manifest in human flesh	L3
For that pure life beneath the Syrian sky	I3
The humble toil the sweat the bench the saw	K
The nails well driven and the work well done	R
For all its vast expansions for the stress	K
Of those three mighty years	K
For all He bore of our humanity	U
His hunger thirst His homelessness and want	M3
His weariness that longed for well earned rest	G3
For labour's high ennoblement through Him	N3
Who laboured with His hands for daily bread	N2
For Lazarus Mary Martha Magdalene	L
For Nazareth and Bethany not least	O3
For that dark hour in lone Gethsemane	L
For that high cross upraised on Calvary	U
The broken seals the rolled back stone The Way	P
For ever opened through His life in death	P3
For that brief glimpse vouchsafed within the vail	J
For all His gracious life and for His Death	P3
With low bowed heads and hearts impassionate	O3
We thank Thee Lord	O3
	-
For all life's beauties and their beauteous growth	Q3
For Nature's laws and Thy rich providence	K
For all Thy perfect processes of life	S
For the minute perfection of Thy work	M
Seen and unseen in each remotest part	O3
For faith and works and gentle charity	O3
For all that makes for quiet in the world	O3
For all that lifts man from his common rut	O3
For all that knits the silken bond of peace	K
For all that lifts the fringes of the night	O3
And lights the darkened corners of the earth	Q2
For every broken gate and sundered bar	R3
For every wide flung window of the soul	J
For that Thou bearest all that Thou hast made	O3
We thank Thee Lord	O3
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For perfect childlike confidence in Thee	O3
For childlike glimpses of the life to be	O3
For trust akin to my child's trust in me	O3
For hearts at rest through confidence in Thee	O3
For hearts triumphant in perpetual hope	F2
For hope victorious through past hopes fulfilled	O3
For mightier hopes born of the things we know	L
For faith born of the things we may not know	L
For hope of powers increased ten thousand fold	O3
For that last hope of likeness to Thyself	S
When hope shall end in glorious certainty	O3
With quickened hearts	K
That find Thee everywhere	N
We thank Thee Lord	O3