Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom his world rejoices;
who from our mothers' arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.

Text: Martin Rinkart, 1636; tr. Catherine
Winkworth, 1863, alt. Tune: Johann Crüger, 1647; harm. based on
Felix Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, Opus 52, 1840