Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2005 11:00:38 GMT
GOD MIGHT HAVE
God might have made the Earth bring forth
Enough for great and small,
The oak tree and the cedar tree
Without a flower at all
He might have made enough - enough
For every want of ours
For food and medicine and toil
And yet have made no flowers
Then wherefore, wherefore were they made
All dyed with rainbow light
All fashioned with supremest grace
Upspringing day and night
Springing in valleys green and low,
And on the mountains high
And in the silent wilderness
Where no man passes by?
Our outward life requires them not,
Then wherefore had they birth
To minister delight to man
To beautify the earth.
To whisper hope to comfort man,
When’er his faith is dim
For He who careth for the flowers
Will care much more for him.
God might have made the Earth bring forth
Enough for great and small,
The oak tree and the cedar tree
Without a flower at all
He might have made enough - enough
For every want of ours
For food and medicine and toil
And yet have made no flowers
Then wherefore, wherefore were they made
All dyed with rainbow light
All fashioned with supremest grace
Upspringing day and night
Springing in valleys green and low,
And on the mountains high
And in the silent wilderness
Where no man passes by?
Our outward life requires them not,
Then wherefore had they birth
To minister delight to man
To beautify the earth.
To whisper hope to comfort man,
When’er his faith is dim
For He who careth for the flowers
Will care much more for him.