Praise to God Immortal Praise

This is a hymn of praise, with verses especially suitable for harvest-festival.

The words were written by English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743-1825). It was originally published under the title "Praise to God in Prosperity and Adversity," in Hymns for Public Worship, 1772.

With meter 7.7.7.7, tunes it has been set to include:

DIX by Conrad Kocher (with the lyrics re-arranged to fix the tune)
NUREMBERG by Johann R. Ahle
SONG 13 by Orlando Gibbons.
PLEYEL'S HYMN byIgnaz J. Pleyel
PRAYER by Asahel Abbott, 1852
LLANFAIR by Robert Williams (1781-1821)/

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Choral arrangement (SATB) with organ, brass and timpani by Patti Drennan, based on LLANFAIR

Examples

Choir with piano backing and trumpet fanfare, tune LLANFAIR:

Choir with piano, tune LLANFAIR:

Instrumental - piano. Tune:

Lyrics

Praise to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days;
Bounteous source of every joy,
Let thy praise our tongues employ:

For the blessings of the fields,
For the stores the garden yields,
Flocks that whiten all the plain;
Yellow sheaves of ripened grain,

All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o'er the smiling land,
All that liberal autumn pours
From its rich o'erflowing stores.

These, to thee, O God, we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And for these our souls shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.