Full Lyrics
Refrain
In town and in village our churchbells today
Cry "Come, you good people and put care away,
For He who made blossom and sunlight and May
Be certain rejoices in hearts that are gay."
1. We send our thanksgiving for all that we find
Of beauty on earth or of good in mankind;
For all that reveals, if the soul be not blind,
Our world as it glows in the Infinite Mind. [Refrain]
2. Our fathers before us were men of goodwill
Who open'd their treasure and proffer'd their shill
That, growing yet fairer, the world might fulfill
the dream of its Maker who looks on it still. [Refrain]
3. For April and June with their silver and gold,
For apples in autumn and nurturing mould,
For fires in the winter and healthgiving cold,
We praise Thee, O God, like our fathers of old. [Refrain]
4. The hope of man's heart and the work of his hand
Have changed like the patterns of water on sand.
But all men have sung their delight as they scanned
The splendour of God on the sea and the land. [Refrain]
5. As once to the Mother and Babe in Their flight
the kings and the shepherds brought each as he might,
We bring thee, though ages have followed that night,
The incense of music and gold of delight. [Refrain]
6. The rose in the hedge and the plum on the tree
Remember their Maker who bade them to be:
They send up the joy of their colour as we
This joy of our singing, O God, unto Thee. [Refrain]
