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"Do you give thanks for this? -- or that? " No, God be thanked / I am not grateful / In that cold, calculating way, with blessings ranked / As one, two, three, and four -- that would be hateful.
I only know that every day brings good above / My poor deserving; / I only feel that in the road of Life true Love / Is leading me along and never swerving.
Whatever gifts and mercies to my lot may fall, / I would not measure / As worth a certain price in praise, or great or small; / But take and use them all with simple pleasure.
For when we gladly eat our daily bread, we bless / The Hand that feeds us; / And when we tread the road of Life in cheerfulness, / Our very heart-beats praise the Love that leads us.