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"For the Beauty of the Earth" is a Christian hymn by Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917). 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 Eucharistic Hymns and Poems entitled "Lyra Eucharistica, Hymns and Verses on The Holy Communion, Ancient and Modern, with other Poems."〔Shipley, MA. The Rev'd Orby, "Lyra Eucharistica, Hymns and Verses on The Holy Communion, Ancient and Modern, with other Poems" Second Edition, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, London 1864, Pages 340 - 342. Details given in an unpublished MS on Hymns and their origins by The Reverend Dr Michael Foster, Rector of Tarrant Hinton, Dorset, England, accessed 17 June 2013〕 It was written as a Eucharistic hymn - hence the title of "The Sacrifice of Praise", the refrain "Christ, our God, to Thee we raise, This, our sacrifice of praise", and as is seen throughout the original text of 1864, especially the last two lines which had replaced the Refrain in verse 8. This is how it appears in the 'English Hymnal' of 1933,〔Oxford University Press, Hymn No 309 (and in the 1906 English Hymnal)〕 with the two exceptions, that Pierpoint's last two lines which had replaced the Refrain after verse 8, were omitted and the Refrain sung instead, and the first two words of the last line in verse two "sinking sense", in common with all other hymnbooks was modified to "linking sense".〔Details from an unpublished MS on Hymns and their origins by The Reverend Dr Michael Foster, Rector of Tarrant Hinton, Dorset, England, accessed 17 June 2013〕 The text was more radically modified by the publishers of "Hymns Ancient and Modern" for the 1916 Hymnbook,〔The Proprietors of Hymns A&M, William Clowes and Sons Limited, London, Standard Edition, Hymn no 663〕 so it could serve as a general hymn. The tune most widely used for this hymn is the same tune used for William Chatterton Dix's "As with Gladness, Men of Old," a Christmas carol composed five years prior but not released publicly until three years after Pierpont. (Although the tune is known traditionally as "Dix" in deference to William Dix, it was originally composed by Conrad Kocher in 1838.) Other tunes used are: "Warden" by James Turle (1802-1882) - as appeared in the 1916 Hymns A&M Standard, and "England’s Lane" by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879–1943) as it appeared in the English Hymnal. ==Hymn text== :''Original text of 1864:'' :For the beauty of the earth, : For the beauty of the skies, :For the Love which from our birth : Over and around us lies: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For the beauty of each hour : Of the day and of the night, :Hill and vale, and tree and flower, : Sun and moon and stars of light: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For the joy of ear and eye, : For the heart and brain's delight, :For the mystic harmony : Linking sense to sound and sight: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For the joy of human love, : Brother, sister, parent, child, :Friends on earth, and friends above; : For all gentle thoughts and mild: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For each perfect Gift of Thine : To our race so freely given, :Graces human and Divine, : Flowers of earth, and buds of Heaven: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For Thy Bride that evermore : Lifteth holy hands above, :Offering up on every shore : This Pure Sacrifice of Love: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For Thy Martyrs' crown of light, : For Thy Prophets' eagle eye, :For Thy bold Confessors' might, : For the lips of Infancy: :, our , to Thee we raise :This our Sacrifice of Praise. :For Thy Virgins' robes of snow, : For Thy Maiden Mother mild, :For Thyself, with hearts aglow, : , Victim undefiled, :Offer we at Thine own Shrine :Thyself, sweet Sacrament Divine. NOTE: Some versions of the hymn used by different Christian denominations change the phrase "Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise" to "Lord of all, to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「For the Beauty of the Earth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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