• Have you ever taken notice-
    as you walk your earthern ways-
    of the pleasures, god has scattered
    on our paths of night and day:
    Pretty flowers- in abundance;
    trees of majesty and might;
    golden strands of playfull moonbeams
    chasing shadows, through the night

    And the smiles of joy and rapture-
    that he graces on every road-
    have you ever taken notice
    how they lighten weary loads:
    Fragrant fields of blooming clover;
    laughing brooks and bubbling springs;
    barren pastures, dressed in ermine;
    painted song birds, on the wing?

    These are gifts that he has scattered
    on the pathways of our time
    to be treasured - like his blessings-
    and a joy to humankind,
    but we must take note - to see them-
    as we walk our different ways
    or, forever, be the travelers
    seeing, only, dirt and clay.