APPROPRIATE SOXCS AKD SELECTIONS. 65 



CREATION. 



The spacious lirmanient on high. 



With all the blue ethereal sky. 



And spangled heavens a shining frame, 



Their great Original proclaim. 



The unwearied sun from day to day. 



Does his Creator's power display. 



And publishes to every land 



The work of an Almighty hand. 



Soon as the evening shades prevail. 

 The moon takes up the wondrous tale. 

 And nightly to the listening earth. 

 Repeats the story of her birth. 

 While all the stars that round her burn. 

 And all the i>lanets in th"ir turn. 

 Confirm the tidings as they roll, 

 And spread the truth from pole to pole. 



— HaYdx. 



THE WONDERFUL WORLD. 



Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, 

 With the wonderful water round you curled, 

 And the wonderful grass upon your breast, — 

 World, you are lieautifuUy drest. 



The wonderful air is over me. 

 And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree ; 

 It walks on the water, and whirls the mills. 

 And talks to itself on the top of the hills. 



You, friendly Earth ! how far do you go 



With the wheat fields that nod and the rivers that flow, 



With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles. 



And people upon you for thousands of miles? 



Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, 



I tremble to think of you. World, at all ; 



And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, 



A whisper within me seemed to say — 



'■You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot; 



You can love and think, and the Earth can not !" 



— William Brighty Rands. 



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