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 rustling grass I hear Him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.

3. 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 earth be glad!

 

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This Is My Wonderful Story

1. This is my wonderful story,
Christ to my heart has come;
Jesus, the King of Glory,
Finds in my heart a home.

2. Was there e’er story so moving,
Story of love and pain;
Was there e’er Bridegroom so loving,
Seeking our hearts to gain.

Refrain:
Christ in me, Christ in me,
Christ in me, O wonderful story,
Christ in me, Christ in me,
Christ in me, the hope of glory.

3. I am so glad I received Him,
Jesus my heart’s dear King;
I who so often have grieved Him,
All to His feet would bring.

4. How can I ever be lonely,
How can I ever fall;
What can I want, if only
Christ is my all in all?

5. Now in His bosom confiding,
This my glad song shall be;
I am in Jesus abiding,
Jesus abides in me.

 

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This Joyful Eastertide

1. This joyful Easter-tide,
Away with sin and sorrow.
My Love, the Crucified,
Hath sprung to life this morrow.

Refrain:
Had Christ, that once was slain,
Ne’er burst his three-day prison,
Our faith had been in vain:
But now hath Christ arisen.

2. My flesh in hope shall rest,
And for a season slumber:
Till trump from east to west
Shall wake the dead in number.

3. Death’s flood hath lost his chill,
Since Jesus cross’d the river:
Lover of souls, from ill
My passing soul deliver.

 

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