I have been looking for this hymn for many years. I remember it from the 60s in junior school in Newbury.
I have google searched several times but only found it tonight.

I remember this hymn from primary school in the 60s

Found these wonderful lyrics just a few weeks ago and passed them onto my sister today. We were children of the 60's but they still taught this wonderful song at our Colwyn Bay primary school. We have lived in Australia for most of our lives and I only remembered the first verse. So happy to see this again after so long. Now if only I can find the Welsh song about the 3 pigs, my lost songs list will be complete! Thank you to the poster of the lyrics.

Wonderful to read!
I have sung this all my life to myself, but I seem to break into emotion when I try to sing it to others!! It’s so honest, innocent and joyful!
Thankyou to everyone for sharing your memories and all the information about this lovely hymn.

I have been searching for these lyrics for years and just when I mention to my friend that I cannot find them anywhere - up pops this post! Divine? We sang all but the last verse as our music teacher didn’t like the word “gay” - but refused to change it for another word. Didn’t realise the lady who wrote this also wrote my other favourite hymns - When a Knight won his spurs and Lord of all hopefulness. Thank you so much for this thread. Amazing.

Thank you very much Keith for all the information about Joyce Anstruther.

Thanks for the complete version.
Who wrote this hymn?

Every year when the daisies and buttercups cover my lawn I recall the first couple of lines of this lovely children's hymn, learnt and sung at infant school way back at the end of the fifties. At church this morning a friend mentioned how pretty the same two flowers looked on the grave yard lawns and I mentioned the hymn, Neither she nor her husband, both in their seventies, recalled having heard it. I came home and googled it and you popped up. So, as we have a very up and coming parents' and toddlers group I've jotted down the words to give to our minister, in the hope we might be able to sing it too.
Thank you so much for being able to provide this information and assure me I hadn't dreamed it.

J(oyce) Anstruther, aka Jan Struther [1901-53], is remembered both for her novel [i]Mrs. Miniver[/i] which won 6 Oscars as a film with Grier Garson in the eponymous role, and because she authored several hymns for children, including [i]Lord of All Hopefulness[/i], [i]When a Knight Won His Spurs[/i] (my favourite), and this one, [i]Daisies are Our Silver[/i]. She was apparently "warm and witty" and these uplifting songs to some extent belied the depression their author endured in her late forties. The hymns resulted from an approach by Canon Percy Dearmer of Westminster Abbey, who was Words Editor of the enlarged edition of "Songs of Praise" published in 1931 by OUP. She was both a church-goer and an agnostic, apparently, and died of the complications of breast cancer at only 53. ... Keith H.

This is truly amazing. The verse starting "Raindrops are our diamonds" sticks in my mind from primary school (in the mid 1950s) and comes to the fore
whenever I see raindrops on leaves. A lovely hymn. I had forgotten all the rest but thanks to Google and this site all is recovered. Thank you.