For the Beauty of the Earth

Reader, Descent, edited the hymn For the Beauty of the Earth, for a family home evening lesson last December. Here are her edits, along with a fourth verse she wrote and added on.

For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
God, Our Father, we now raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light,
God, Our Mother, we now raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild,
Christ, Our Brother, we now raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

Here's her fourth verse, referencingto the Thirteenth Article of Faith and Moroni 7:13.

For all that is praiseworthy
Kind benev’lent chaste and true
Everything that enticeth
to do good and to love God
Our family in heaven, we now raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.