Ode to Earth: A Poem

Ode to Earth.

O sun-kissed vales and lofty hills Among thy rocks and whisp'ring rills I love to bide and ramble. Thy hidden wealth, thy treasured trove, May tempt the covetous there to rove And filthy lucre gamble. Suffice for me to sense thy worth In greater gifts, O Mother Earth. The teeming life of wood and fen, The home of cricket, fox and wren The sylvan glade, the purling brook, Speak wondrous words from Nature's book. Such marvels doth my eyes behold — Beshrew the thought of craving gold !

Give praise to Providence above For scented field and leafy grove. E. H. Lund