Text: | This Is My Father's World |
Author: | Maltbie D. Babcock |
Tune: | TERRA BEATA |
Adapter: | Franklin L. Sheppard |
Harmonizer: | David Hugh Jones |
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:
the birds their carols raise,
the morning light, the lily white,
declare their Maker's praise.
This is my Father's world:
he shines in all that's fair;
in the ruthling grass I hear him pass,
he speaks to me everywhere.
3. This is my Father's world:
oh let me ne'er forget
that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father's world:
the battle is not done;
Jesus who died shall be satisfield,
and earth and heaven be one.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | This is my Father's world |
Title: | This Is My Father's World |
Author: | Maltbie D. Babcock (1901) |
Meter: | SMD |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Warfare, Spiritual; In The Beginning: Creator of Heaven and Earth |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TERRA BEATA |
Adapter: | Franklin L. Sheppard (1915) |
Harmonizer: | David Hugh Jones (1953) |
Meter: | SMD |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | English traditional melody |
Copyright: | Harmonization from The Hymnbook, copyright MCMLV by John Ribble, renewed 1983, used by permission of Westminster Press |