The words to “All things bright and beautiful” were published in 1848.
They were written by Cecil Frances Alexander, who lived in Strabane. 1848 was the time of the Irish ‘famine’, which makes the line about “the poor man at the gate” quite dark.
To be fair, the famine may not have had such an impact in Strabane at the time the verse was written - I don’t know.
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate
Reminded of this by Kate Nash’s new version of Sinead O’Connor’s song