The Poetry Corner

The Joy Of Creation.

By W. M. MacKeracher

How must have thrilled the great Creator's mind With radiant, glad and satisfying joy, Ever new self-expressive forms to find In those six days of rapturous employ! How must He have delighted when He made The stars, and meted ocean with His span, And formed the insect and the tender blade, And fashioned, after His own image, man! And unto man such joy in his degree He hath appointed, work of mind and hand, To mould in forms of useful symmetry Words, hues, wood, iron, stone, at his command To toil upon the navigable sea And ply his industry upon the land.