Now thank we all our God

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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 us in His 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.

Words:  Martin Rinkart, Nun danket alle Gott, Jesu Hertz-Büchlein, 1636;
                    tr. Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica II, 1856, alt.
   Tune:  Johann Crüger, Praxis Pietatis Melica, 4th ed. 1647.

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