NATURE'S WONDERLAND

For all our vaunted cleverness we cannot understand

The beauty and mystery of nature's wonderland.

The sun, the moon, the whirling stars, the sea,

The sky and the earth-

All the many miracles of life and death and birth.

Man with marvelous machines can do stupendous things

But could not with his hands create a bird with voice and wings.

Could not make a rose, a rainbow or a common weed,

A chrysalis, a dragonfly, a cabbage, or a seed.

Cannot say what magic holds the plants in its place

Or how the spider spins its dainty web of fairy lace...

He cannot make a blade of grass, a leaf, a cone, a pod

Yet he is too arrogant to give the praise to God.