A recent text by Brian Wren (1981) set to a familiar old tune by John Darwell from the 1700s, as you can tell from the sample at AOV. It is a setting of Ps 140.
Listen to it played on church bells here. (He’s cheating! – he is playing it in C)
My backing is more fake church organ.
1 Let all creation dance
2 God’s breath each force unfurls, igniting from a spark expanding starry swirls, with whirlpools dense and dark. Though moon and sun seem mindless things, each orbit sings: “Your will be done.”
in energies sublime,
as order turns with chance,
unfolding space and time,
for nature’s art
in glory grows,
and newly shows
God’s mind and heart.3 Our own amazing earth,
with sunlight, cloud and storms
and life’s abundant growth
in lovely shapes and forms,
is made for praise,
a fragile whole,
and from its soul
heaven’s music plays.4 Lift heart and soul and voice:
in Christ all praises meet
and nature shall rejoice
as all is made complete.
In hope be strong.
all life befriend
and kindly tend
creation’s song.
© Hope Publishing Company, 1983