This Is My Father's World
Composer, Franklin L. Sheppard, 1915
Author, Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901
Psalms 24:1; 97:1
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.
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.
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 the earth be glad!
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