Let Us Raise Our Grateful Voices

This is the text of this hymn as it appears in Church Hymns (1871) where it is listed under General Hymns:

Let us raise our grateful voices;
Nature all with us rejoices
Homage to our God to bring,—
Voices hymning deepest yearning
Of our hearts intent on learning
How God’s praise we best may sing.

Hills and vales and mighty mountains,
Lakes and rivers, sparkling fountains,
Join the never-resting throng!
Beasts and birds, all God’s creation,
Filled with holy aspiration,
Swell the universal song!

Let not man, of all God’s creatures
Noblest far—for in man’s features
God’s own image we behold,—
Let not man in adoration
Fall behind. By ev’ry nation
Let His praise in song be told!

God and Father, deign to hear us,
Son Eternal, come Thou near us,
Holy Spirit, present be;
As, with Angels blest and mortals,
High above to Heaven’s bright portals
Swells our psalm of praise to Thee! Amen.

Words: Robert Brown Borthwick, 1870.
Tune (Church Hymns): “Bathurst” Robert Brown Borthwick, 1869.
Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7.