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My Father's World

from Songs For Advent by Jonah & The Whale

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When Maltbie Davenport Babcock lived in Lockport, 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 he was "going out to see the Father's world". Shortly after his death in 1901 she published a compilation of Babcock's writings entitled Thoughts for Every-Day Living that contained the poem "My Father's World."[2] The original poem contained sixteen stanzas of four lines each.[3] In 1916 Sheppard chose only three verses of the sixteen when he set the poem to music to a tune entitled "Terra Beata" (Latin for "Blessed Earth").[4] Scripture references in the original poem include Psalm 33:5 "He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love." and Psalm 50:12 "For the world is mine, and all that is in it.

"Wikipedia contributors, "This Is My Father's World," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=This_Is_My_Father%27s_World&oldid=711630058 (accessed March 23, 2016).

lyrics

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!

The Lord is King; let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let the earth be glad!
God reigns; let the earth be glad!

Alleluia*
Alleluia
Alleluia

Amen
Amen

*Not in the original composition

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from Songs For Advent, released November 22, 2016
Music by Robert Gorini

Vocals by Robert Gorini & Jenny Wooten

Lyrics by Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901)

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