Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Joy-ful, joy-ful, we a-dore Thee, God of glo-ry, Lord of love; Hearts un-fold like flowers be-fore Thee, Open-ing to the sun a-bove. Melt the clouds of sin and sad-ness, Drive the dark of doubt a-way; Giv-er of im-mor-tal glad-ness, Fill us with the light of day. All Thy works with joy sur-round Thee, Earth and heaven re-flect Thy rays, Stars and an-gels sing a-round Thee, Cen-ter of un-bro-ken praise. Field and for-est, vale and moun-tain, Flower-y mea-dow, flash-ing sea, Sing-ing bird and flow-ing foun-tain Call us to re-joice in Thee. Thou art giv-ing and for-giv-ing, Ev-er bles-sing, ev-er blessed, Well-spring of the joy of liv-ing, O-cean depth of hap-py rest! Thou our Fa-ther, Christ our Bro-ther, All who live in love are Thine; Teach us how to love each oth-er, Lift us to the joy di-vine. Mor-tals, join the hap-py cho-rus With the morn-ing stars be-gan; Fa-ther love is reign-ing o'er us, Bro-ther love binds man to man. Ev-er sing-ing, march we on-ward, Vic-tors in the midst of strife, Joy-ful mu-sic leads us sun-ward In the tri-umph song of life.