Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS


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GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by                    
First Line: Beneath god's ever present sky
Last Line: Marks life's beginning and its end.
Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Life; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology


Beneath God's ever present sky
And limitless, vast oceans lie;
Man's ships defy the restless sweep,
While hid are monsters of the deep;
Within their bounds are lands most fair,
And wonder cities too are there;
Great mountains rear their heads on high
With snow crowned peaks that touch the sky;

Down far beneath lie valleys fair
Where fruits and flowers perfume the air;
Rippling lakes half screened by trees;
Broad rivers flowing to the seas;
Dense forests guard the fertile plains
And farms with fields of waving grains;
God's creatures too are everywhere,
Fish in waters, birds in air;

His cattle on a thousand hills;
While mammoth barns earth's harvest fills;
Hidden treasures, silver and gold,
Diamonds, pearls, and wealth untold;
Trout brooks and streams with silver sheen
Like serpents wind 'mid hills of green;
Isles set like gems in tropic seas;
Tall Royal Palms wave in the breeze;

Long ocean swells pound coral reef,
Loud booms the surf with howls of grief;
Volcanoes send their smoke on high,
At night their flames light up the sky;
As lava creeps down to the sea
Both man and beast in terror flee;
When rent in twain the earth doth quake,
Then cities fall and mountains shake;

'Mid torrid heat in jungle wilds
Are mammoth snakes and crocodiles,
Lions and tigers night and day
With savage fierceness seek their prey;
Fierce typhoons sweep with awful roar
And strew with wrecks both sea and shore;
Down from the skies the lightnings flash,
While rain descends and thunders crash;

'Neath Winter's cloak of ice and snow
Great lakes are hid and rivers flow;
Half buried homes where log fires glow;
White-laden evergreens bend low;
In frigid zones are polar bear
And seal in icy waters there;
Where man hunts game with harpoon spear,
And night and day come once each year;

The sun by day, the moon by night,
Give to the world both life and light;
While hosts of stars the skies display
Where Angels tread the Milky Way;
A world conceived in love for man,
Made by God's omnipotent hand.
Then God made man, His likeness he,
The ruler of His World to be.

While lower than the Angels still,
God made all subject to man's will.
Men, brown and yellow, black and white,
Are all God's children in His sight.
Infinite love, God's thought and plan,
Offers Eternal Life to man.
Vain, if the time man here doth spend
Marks life's beginning and its end.





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