God in his love for us lent us this planet
God in his love for us lent us this planet. Fred Pratt Green* (1903-2000).
Originally written for a competition for hymns about the environment, this is one of the hymns chosen by the Hymn Society of America for inclusion in Sixteen Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment (1973). The original text had this additional stanza on the unacceptable face of capitalism, now usually omitted:
Casual despoilers, or high-priests of Mammon,
Selling the future for present rewards,
Careless of life and contemptuous of beauty:
Bid them remember: the Earth is the Lord's.
Changes in the text in some books (such as HP) include stanza 3, line 1, where ‘wars of man’ is now ‘human wars’, and...
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