Thanks Be to God
for Finnian Scott Ellwood

Thanks be to God for apples red, For home and hearth and daily bread, For all the bounty Thy hands have wrought, Thanks be to God.

Thanks be to God for stars and seas, For trilling finches, flowering trees, For freshness that cannot be bought, Thanks be to God

Thanks be to God for faith's long sight, For hands that work for peace and right, For every healing act and thought, Thanks be to God—

Thanks be to God who guides our ways From loss to Love, from pain to praise; For thee, love's priceless gift long sought, Thanks be to God— For Thee, Love's Gift of gift unsought— Thanks be to God!

—Anonymous (stanza 1, alt), Faith Bowman (2,3,4); music "Thanks Be to God" by Stanley Dickson (May Dickson Brahe)