{"id":596,"date":"2003-02-10T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-08-27T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:23:26","slug":"for-the-beauty-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"For the Beauty of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sung by Kari Nelson Argo and Sigrid Nelson Helland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-597 alignnone\" title=\"BeautyEarth\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeautyEarth-600x444.jpg\" alt=\"BeautyEarth\" width=\"483\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeautyEarth-600x444.jpg 600w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeautyEarth-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><br \/>\nFor the beauty of the earth<br \/>\nFor the glory of the skies,<br \/>\nFor the love which from our birth<br \/>\nOver and around us lies.<br \/>\nRefrain<br \/>\nLord of all, to Thee we raise,<br \/>\nThis our hymn of grateful praise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the beauty of each hour,<br \/>\nOf the day and of the night,<br \/>\nHill and vale, and tree and flower,<br \/>\nSun and moon, and stars of light.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the joy of ear and eye,<br \/>\nFor the heart and mind\u2019s delight,<br \/>\nFor the mystic harmony<br \/>\nLinking sense to sound and sight.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the joy of human love,<br \/>\nBrother, sister, parent, child,<br \/>\nFriends on earth and friends above,<br \/>\nFor all gentle thoughts and mild.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For Thy Church, that evermore<br \/>\nLifteth holy hands above,<br \/>\nOffering upon every shore<br \/>\nHer pure sacrifice of love.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Words: Folliot S. Pierpoint, in Lyra Eucharistica,<br \/>\nby Orby Shipley, second edition, 1864.<br \/>\nMusic: \u201cDix,\u201d Conrad Kocher, 1838<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.cyberhymnal.org\/htm\/f\/b\/fbeautye.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sung by Kari Nelson Argo and Sigrid Nelson Helland For the beauty of the earth For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies. Refrain Lord of all, to Thee we raise, This our hymn of grateful praise. For the beauty of each hour, Of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}