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Text : Maltbie D. Babcock
Music : Traditional English melody; adapt. by Franklin L. Sheppard
Music : Traditional English melody; adapt. by Franklin L. Sheppard
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lyrics
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.
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 rustling grass I hear Him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.
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 rustling grass I hear Him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.
3
This is my Father's world:
O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the Ruler yet.
This is my Father's world:
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!
O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the Ruler yet.
This is my Father's world:
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!
"This is My
Father's World" is a
well-known Christian
hymn written
by Maltbie
Davenport Babcock,
a minister from New York, and published posthumously in 1901.
When Rev. Babcock lived in Lockport, New York, he took frequent walks along the Niagara Escarpment to enjoy the overlook's panoramic vista of upstate New
York scenery and Lake Ontario, telling his wife Katherine he was
"going out to see the Father's world". He died in 1901 at age 42.
Shortly after his death Katherine published a compilation of Babcock's writings
entitled Thoughts for Every-Day Living that contained the poem
"My Father's World". The original poem contained sixteen stanzas
of four lines each. The poem was set to music in 1915 by Franklin L. Sheppard, a close friend of Babcock. The tune
name, TERRA BEATA, means “blessed earth” in Latin. Sheppard adapted the
music from a traditional English melody that he learned from his mother as a
child. The poem refers to several
scriptures, including Jacob's exclamation "the Lord is in this place"
from Genesis 28:16 and
the rockfall, earthquake, and still small voice of 1 Kings
19:11-12, and the final stanza concludes by paraphrasing Psalm 96:10-11.
Some hymnals follow the 1915 setting in concluding with the 15th
stanza instead: "This is my Father's world. The battle is not done. Jesus
who died shall be satisfied, and earth and heav'n be one."
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