We thank you, Lord of Heaven
We thank you, Lord of Heaven. Jan Struther* (1901-53).
Written for SofPE (1931). It is a delightful hymn of thankfulness for the created world and for good things within it — homes and friends, food and sleep, and ‘zeal and zest for living’. Stanza 2 is a good example:
For swift and gallant horses, For lambs in pastures springing,For dogs with friendly faces, For birds with music thronging Their chantries in the trees;For herbs to cool our fever, For flowers of field and garden,For bees among the clover With stolen sweetness laden - We thank you, Lord, for these.
In its undogmatic love of the goodness of the world it was typical of a certain kind of SofPE hymn, and it is very suitable...
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