THE CREATION
From the blackness and darkness of chaos
Jehovah said: "Let there be light."
And the first sunny morn knew its dawning
And the evening stars welcomed the night.
Jehovah said: "Let there be light."
And the first sunny morn knew its dawning
And the evening stars welcomed the night.
Through vistas of sunlight and shadows
The golden shafts melted in space,
While the new world traversed her bright pathway
With the smile of God fresh on her face.
The golden shafts melted in space,
While the new world traversed her bright pathway
With the smile of God fresh on her face.
She moved in her beauty and grandeur
Leaving chaos and darkness behind,
A world that had first had its being
In the wealth of the Infinite mind.
Leaving chaos and darkness behind,
A world that had first had its being
In the wealth of the Infinite mind.
The waves caught the tint of the cloud-lands
And shouted aloud in their glee
Till the Creator silenced their voices
And shut up the gates of the sea.
And shouted aloud in their glee
Till the Creator silenced their voices
And shut up the gates of the sea.
"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further
And here shalt thy proud waves be stayed."
The sea heard her Maker's commandment
And the fierce briny ocean obeyed.
And here shalt thy proud waves be stayed."
The sea heard her Maker's commandment
And the fierce briny ocean obeyed.
The vales smiled with verdure and blossoms,
The proud rocks rose, silent and gray;
But whose were those magical fingers
That fashioned each delicate spray?
The proud rocks rose, silent and gray;
But whose were those magical fingers
That fashioned each delicate spray?
And who was the marvelous sculptor
Whose chisel, unheard and unseen,
Carved out the great rocks and deep basins
For the cool brooks that fretted between?
Whose chisel, unheard and unseen,
Carved out the great rocks and deep basins
For the cool brooks that fretted between?
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