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In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known. Now closer to Heaven bound,įor dear to God is the earth Christ trod. This is my Father’s world, should my heart be ever sad? This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above, I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.” This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face. This is my Father’s world: the battle is not done: That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet. This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise. This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise, This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought This is my Father’s world, and to my listening earsĪll nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. The Niagara Falls are actually on this ledge as well. Part of the Niagara Escarpment in New York. Nevertheless, it still carries the magnificence of Babcock’s inspiration. My apologies for the slight sync issue but it seems to be in the raw data. I thank my friend, Bruce Kirby, for discovering it and sharing it with me. The reorchestration is controversial, but I found it mesmerizing and beautiful. In the video above, the hymn as been robustly re-orchestrated at Indiana Wesleyan. Howard Shore quoted the first seven notes of the hymn verbatim in his Shire theme from his music for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The dignity of the Shire may in part be due to the Franklin Sheppard theme.Īn instrumental version is fittingly used in the Ken Burns documentary film, The National Parks. Later, the poem was set to music by Franklin Sheppard and has become a traditional American hymn since the early 1900s. It is believed that his walks into the Niagara escarpments of Lockport, New York inspired Babcock to write the 19th century poem, “This is my Father’s World”. Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York, would say before he would take his walk. “I’m going out to see my Father’s world…”