Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL


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First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning
Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race


God made a little world in Time's beginning,
A tiny, rounded thing of light and shade;
He thought of us what time He sent it spinning
Among the other worlds that He had made.

Worlds still unformed, and worlds already dying,
(First tasks completed in the endless plan).
He breathed on His new world and sent it flying,
And smiled to think upon His coming man.

He chose an orbit for its ceaseless swinging,
Sun tempered to the purpose of His thought,
He gave it earth and air and water, bringing
The needs of life to life that still was not.

I think He smiled when His first green came creeping,
Blue oceans fringed about with living jade;
He smiled again when moving life came leaping,
And once again when the first savage prayed.

Does He smile now, when, after countless ages,
His man stands grown to conscious mind and soul,
Dimly himself can read the turning pages,
And ask, still eager, for a farther goal?

The process sweeps beyond our small discerning,
We catch its skirts and follow, bit by bit;
We grope and stumble, but our finite yearning
Must lead us slowly toward the Infinite.

In spite of all our wars, our futile sinning,
Our flagrant crimes against our brotherhood,
I think God smiles as in that first beginning,
And, looking on His world, still finds it good.





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