"Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and all that move in them." Psalm 69:34
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Words: St. Francis of Assisi, circa 1225, titled "Canticle of the Sun." He wrote this hymn shortly before his death, but it was not published for almost 400 years. Translated to English by William Henry Draper, for a children's Whitsuntide festival in Leeds; first published in 1926.
Music: "Lasst Uns Erfreuen," Geistliche KirchengesSnge (K÷ln, Germany: 1623); harmony by Ralph Vaughan Williams in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906)
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