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2 unusual facts about All Things Bright and Beautiful


All Things Bright and Beautiful

The title of the poem is also the title for the third studio album by the Synthpop act Owl City.

Cecil Frances Alexander

Some of her hymns, e.g. "All Things Bright and Beautiful", "There is a Green Hill Far Away" and the Christmas carol "Once in Royal David's City", are known by Christians the world over, as is her translation of “Saint Patrick's Breastplate”.



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Piccalilli

The semi-autobiographical book Vet In Harness (published in North America as All Things Bright And Beautiful) by James Herriot includes an amusing anecdote in which Herriot uses a particularly spicy piccalilli to help make an unsavory meal more palatable and avoid offending his well-meaning hosts.