FORGOTTEN VERSE

Today’s short verse is in response to a request from Rachel Childs of Pembrokeshire. “In my 92nd year, many old sayings and poems seem to stick in my memory,” she writes.
“I would love to trace the poem we had to learn in the infant school over 80 years ago. All I can remember is the closing lines: ‘God’s in his heaven, All’s right with the world’.”
The lines you quote come from Robert Browning who, in 1841, published a play about youthful innocence called Pippa’s
Passes. The short poem ending in those lines is a song sung by Pippa. Many later writers borrowed those lines from Browning, but this is the original version, and I hope it was the one you
learned so long ago at school.