Now Thank We All Our God

Words: Martin Rinkhart, 1636, translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1858

Music:   "Nun Danket," attributed to Johann Cr�ger, 1647; harmony by Felix Mendelssohn, 1840 (from his Hymns of Praise)
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 1.  Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
     Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
     Who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way
     With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

 2.  O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
     With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us;
     And keep still in grace, and guide us when perplexed;
     And free us from all ills, in this world and the next.

 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.

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