Text: | This Is My Father's World |
Adaptor (st. 2): | Mary Babcock Crawford |
Author: | Maltbie Davenport Babcock |
Tune: | TERRA BEATA |
Composer: | Franklin L. Sheppard |
1 This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings and round me rings
the music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world;
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas -
his hand the wonders wrought.
2 This is my Father's world:
O let us not forget
that though the wrong is often strong,
God is the ruler yet.
He trusts us with his world,
to keep it clean and fair -
all earth and trees, all skies and seas,
all creatures ev'rywhere.
3 This is my Father's world:
he shines in all that's fair;
in rustling grass I hear him pass -
he speaks to me ev'rywhere.
this is my Father's world:
why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King, let heaven ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | This is my Father's world |
Title: | This Is My Father's World |
Author: | Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901, alt.) |
Adaptor (st. 2): | Mary Babcock Crawford (1972) |
Meter: | S.M.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Father and Creator; God; God--Creator(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TERRA BEATA |
Composer: | Franklin L. Sheppard (1915) |
Meter: | S.M.D. |
Key: | E♭ Major |