Lessons of Praise to God

Do you hear the Robin’s singing

Out among the orchard trees

Do you mark the ceaseless winging

Of the busy honey bee

 

Do you hear the larks sweet music

Rise from the blooming clover

Do you note how all contented

Seem each happy little rover

 

Do you hear the swallows twitter

Round their nest beneath the eaves

Do you see their swift wings flutter

In and out among the leaves

Do you see the roses twining

Through the greenness of the hedge

Do you mark the sunlight shining

Over yonder rocky ledge

 

Every bird that chirps and twitters

Through the branches of the trees

Every leaf that stirs and flutters

To the whisper of the breeze

 

Every lowly little flower

That beautifies the sod

Are all showing forth the power

Of the ever present God

 

The roses in their blooming

The robins in their lays

And the wild bees in their humming

Are uttering His praise

 

Praise God the swallows twitter

Parise God the larks respond

Hear the little songsters utter

His praises all around

 

Praise God the soft winds murmur

Praise God the waters shout

Each rippling stream takes up the theme

And rings his music out

 

Her the voices of the forest

In its leafy solitude

Hear them join in the joyful chorus

Praise God for He is good

 

And the rocks have caught the message

And repeat it to the hills

They send it to the valleys

In the gurgling of the rills

 

Praise God the valleys answer

And the sunlight smiles reply

And the winds take up the song of praise

And waft it to the sky

 

Shall you and I be silent

When all the earth cries out

When rock and rill and vale and hill

Send up their joyful shout

 

Have you heard the mighty chorus

And have you understood

Then join the glad thankgiving psalm

Praise God for He is good.