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NUN DANKET 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6.

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1 Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and

Who wondrous things hath done, In whom His world re

Johann Crüger, 1647

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is ours to

3 All praise and thanks to God,
The Father, now be given,
The Son, and Him who reigns

With them in highest heaven,
The One Eternal God

Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

Rev. Martin Rinkart, c. 1636. Trans. by Catherine Winkworth, 1858

657 WIR PFLÜGEN 7.6.7.6.D. with Refrain

Johann A. P. Schulz, 1800

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1 We plough the fields, and scat - ter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and

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4 And here Thy Name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.
Rev. Leonard Bacon, 1833 (Text of 1845)

4 God the All-righteous One! man hath defied Thee;
Yet to eternity standeth Thy word;
Falsehood and wrong shall not tarry beside Thee;
Give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

Lord.

5 God the All-wise! by the fire of Thy chastening,
Earth shall to freedom and truth be restored;
Through the thick darkness Thy kingdom is hastening;

Thou wilt give peace in Thy time, O Lord.

A-MEN.

Arr. from Henry F. Chorley, 1842, and Rev. John Ellerton, 1870