For the Beauty of the Earth

by Folliott S. Pierpoint (1864) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A rolling litany of thanks — for earth and sky, for love and friends — with a glad refrain rising after each.

For the beauty of the earth,

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies;
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Themes: gratitude