How wonderful this world of thine
How wonderful this world of thine. Fred Pratt Green* (1903-2000).
These words were written ca. 1947 for a tune, FITZWILLIAM, composed by Handel* and used originally for Charles Wesley*’s ‘O Love Divine, how sweet thou art’*. Francis Westbrook* asked Pratt Green for a hymn using this tune which could be included in The School Hymn Book of the Methodist Church (1950). Pratt Green was unhappy about its later inclusion in HP, probably because he viewed the hymn primarily as a poem, with its euphonic lines ‘Homeward across the clover-field/ Hurries the honey bee’. But its concentration on God as ‘the life of all creation’ led him to trace in human beings the ‘greater gifts’ of human awareness of...
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