12 NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 



He might have made enough, enough, 

 For every want of ours; 

 For luxury, medicine, and toil, 

 And yet have made no flowers. 



The ore within the mountain mine 

 Requireth none to grow, 

 Nor doth it need the lotus flower 

 To make the river flow. 



The clouds might give abundant rain, 

 The nightly dews might fall, 

 And the herb that keepeth life in man 

 Might yet have drunk them all. 



Then wherefore, wherefore were they made 

 All dyed with rainbow light, 

 All fashion'd 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 passeth 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 

 Whene'er his faith is dim ; 

 For whoso careth for the flowers 

 Will care much more for Him ! 



MARY Ho WITT. 



