Voices Found: A Song of Thanksgiving, VF 197
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Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving to God the creator triumphantly raise,
who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us, who still guides us on to the end of our days.
God's banners are o'er us, his light goes before us, a pillar of fire shining forth in the night,
till shadows have vanished and darkness is banished, as forward we travel from light into light.
His law he enforces, the stars in their courses and sun in its orbit obediently shine;
the hills and the mountains the rivers and fountains, the deeps of the ocean proclaim him divine.
We too should be voicing our love and rejoicing; with glad adoration a song let us raise
till all things now living unite in thanksgiving:"to God in the highest, hosanna and praise.”
Katharine K. Davis (1892-1980)
Music:The Ash Grove, Welsh folk tune; harm. 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship
Katharine K. Davis wrote "Let all things now living" as a choral anthem for girls choir at a time when there was little music written for women's voices. A composer, arranger, and pianist, Davis graduated from Wellesley College and studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. She served on the faculty at Wellesley, and later directed music at the Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the Shady Hill School for Girls in Philadelphia. Voices Found presents her song of thanksgiving arranged for congregations. It is an appropriate hymn for any festive service, especially for Thanksgiving Day.
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