WATCHING GOD GROW.
(By Edmund Vance Cooke.) Are your nerves as a harp for the
devil ? Does he pick at the strings as he screechingly sings And ask you to join in his revel ? Are you barrenly hurried and
halted ? Are you pettily sieged and as-
saulted ? Out ol doors with you! dig in the
yard ! Be a grub in the garden, a blade
in the sward I There’s a blue sky above and a firm earth below, And you’re sure of them both, as you watch things grow.
Is your God but a mummified man ? Is the Universe sick ? Is creation a trick, A planless and pitiless plan ? Out ot self with you 1 look through the years At the tempests and triumphs and tears ! Look backward to Chaos, look forward to Us, From an infinite Minus to infinite Plus, And whatever of faith or of unfaith you know, You are one with it All, as you watch God grow.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 4
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161WATCHING GOD GROW. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 4
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