THE WONDERFUL WORLD.
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With tho wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, 1 World, you are beautifully drest. The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree— It walks on tho water and whirls tho mills, , ~ And talks to itself on the top of tho 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 eliifs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles ? Ah! you arc so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, . . My mother kissed me, and said, quilo gay = “If the wonderful is great to you, And great to Father, and Mother too, You are more than the earth, though you are such a dot! You can love and think, and tho Earth cannot!” —William Blighty Hands.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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168THE WONDERFUL WORLD. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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