14. This Is My Father's World

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
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
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



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