Victorian hymn revisited

Subject: RE: Victorian hymn revisited
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 16 Oct 15 - 05:37 AM

Nice things?

The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them high and lowly,
And ordered their estate.

All things bright and beautiful indeed!

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I once did a storytelling gig as part of a Northumbrian church service and wondered what sort of a set-up I'd wandered into when I heard the vicar calling upon his flock to join him in prayer to the god of the spiders and goats.

Subject: RE: Victorian hymn revisited
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 15 - 05:16 AM

The Monty Python parody, All Things Dull and Ugly, is here on Mudcat.
The Kipper Family also wrote one called All Things Dark and Dangerous.

Sadly, neither of these is widely sung in school assemblies.

Marje

Subject: Victorian hymn revisited
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Oct 15 - 04:45 AM

Do they still make hapless schoolchildren sing Victorian hymns every morning? Certainly did in my time, even up to my own teaching days which ended in the 80s. I used to take particular exception to that piece of transcendental idiocy by Mrs Alexander, "All Things Bright And Beautiful", about how God made all the nice things, "Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings", and then "gave us lips to tell How great is God Almighty Who has made all things well". So I came up with an additional verse of my own:-

The malarial mosquito,
The sucking vampire bat;
He must have made such things as well —
So what do you think of that!

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