Our feet, too long in cities pent, Their free-dom find once more.
And wing-ing tho'ts,and happy moods of

love and joy and prayer.

And ev

ery cloud his bless-ings break In

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sun-shine or in shower. A

The World Is Glad, the World Is Bright 54

JULIA WARD HOWE, 1819-1910

(AUDUBON. L. M. D.)

Arranged from LASSON

By FREDERIC CURTIS BUTTERFIELD

UNISON

1. The

world is glad,the world is bright, With sun-ny day and star-lit night; The 2. When soft the gold- en autumn comes, When win-ter rules in hap-py homes, I

sea-sons flit with wondrous change, The earth holds treasure deep and strange. When mar-vel in the year's swift round How new de - lights are

Spring's sweet o- dors fill the air, My soul would lift it self in pray'r, By
dear - er
far than aught I see, God's lov - ing pres-ence is to me; This

From Universalist S. S. Hymnal, Words used by permission

Hath sent the hoary frost

Life mounts in ev

ery throbbing vein, Love deepens round the hearth, Day un to day doth ut ter speech, And night to night pro- claim,

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God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea

Creation lives and
When lightnings flash and
And, when thy morn-ing

moves in thee,

Thy pres-ent life through all doth flow. storm-winds blow, There is thy power; thy law is there. breaks in power, We hear thy word, 'Let there be light.'

REFRAIN

We give thee thanks, thy name we sing, Al-might-y Fa-ther, heav'nly King. AMEN.