Let my voice ring out and over the earth,
  Through all the grief and strife,
With a golden joy in a silver mirth:
    Thank God for Life! 

Let my voice swell out through the great abyss
  To the azure dome above,
With a chord of faith in the harp of bliss:
    Thank God for Love! 

Let my voice thrill out beneath and above,
  The whole world through:
O my Love and Life, 0 my Life and Love,
    Thank God for you!

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Text Authorship:

• by James Thomson (1834 - 1882), no title, appears in Sunday Up the River: An Idyll of Cockaigne, no. 17 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus (1848 - 1912), "A song of thanksgiving", published 1891 [voice and piano], London : Boosey & Co..
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