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.