The Wonderful World

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Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,

with the wonderful water around you curled,

and the wonderful grass upon your breast-

World, you are beautifully dressed!

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 today,

a whisper inside me seemed to say:

"You are more than the earth, though you are such a dot;

you can love and think, and the earth cannot!"

By: William Brighty Rands