Saturday, August 14, 2021

This Is My Father's World, 1915 (hymn)




"This is My Father's World" is a Christian hymn adapted from poem written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, which was published posthumously in 1901.  The melody "Terra Beata", an old English melody of  set by Franklin L. Sheppard in 1915.

The poem, also named  “My Father’s World”, was published in a compilation of Babcock’s writings entitled Thoughts for Every-Day Living, shortly after his death in 1901.







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