THANKSGIVING.
BY MRS J. E. AKERS. Oh, give thanks for the summer and winter, Give thanks for the sunshine and rain, For the flowers, the fruits, and the grasses, And the bountiful harvest of grain ; For the winds that sweep over our prairies, Distributing vigour and health, Oh, give thanks to our Heavenly Father For Nature’s abundance of wealth. Oh. give thanks for loved friends and relations, For sweet converse with those that are dear ; Give thanks for our country’s salvation From famine and war the past year ; That while kingdoms and empires have fallen, Our government firmly has stood. Oh. give thanks to our Heavenly Father, For all this abundance of good. Give thanks for each lawful ambition, That gives a new impulse to do ; Give thanks for each fond hope’s fruition, And all of God’s goodness to you ; Forget not whence cometh the power That all of these blessings secures, Oh, give thanks to our Heavenly Father Whose mercy forever endures.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 185
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163THANKSGIVING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 185
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