For The Beauty Of The Earth
For the Beauty of the Earth
In each verse there are four lines each with seven syllables and a two-lined refrain also with seven syllables each. Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerised by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 in a book of poems entitled "The Sacrifice of Praise." The tune most widely used for this hymn is called Dix. composed by Conrad Cocher in 1838. - From Wikipedia
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For the Beauty of the Earth
Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917).
In each verse there are four lines each with seven syllables and a two-lined refrain also with seven syllables each. Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerised by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 in a book of poems entitled "The Sacrifice of Praise." The tune most widely used for this hymn is called Dix. composed by Conrad Cocher in 1838. - From Wikipedia
In each verse there are four lines each with seven syllables and a two-lined refrain also with seven syllables each. Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerised by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 in a book of poems entitled "The Sacrifice of Praise." The tune most widely used for this hymn is called Dix. composed by Conrad Cocher in 1838. - From Wikipedia
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