Father We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted { Father We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted by F. Bland Tucker COMMANDMENTS-Genevan Psalter, 1547, attr. to Loui s Bourgeois RENDEZ A DIEU-Louis Bourgeois, Genevan Psalter, 1 543 Father, We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted } Father, we thank thee who hast planted Thy holy Name within our hearts. Knowledge and faith and life immortal Jesus thy Son to us imparts. Thou, Lord, didst make all for thy pleasure, Didst give us food for all our days, Giving in Christ the Bread eternal; Thine is the power, be thine the praise. Watch o'er thy Church, O Lord, in mercy, Save it from evil, guard it still, Perfect it in thy love, unite it, Cleansed and conformed unto thy will. As grain, once scattered on the hillsides, Was in this broken bread made one, So from all lands thy Church be gathered Into thy kingdom by thy Son.