Is There On Earth Any More Appealing Hymn?

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof;

 the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 24:1

This Is My Father's World

Is there on earth any more appealing hymn

Than the one that heralds the return of spring?

Is there a more welcome, sweeter melody

Than the robin’s cheery tir-a-tir-a-lee

Than the goldfinch, dapper in bright, yellow duds

Trees and bushes bursting with laughter-filled buds

Showers slipping earthward, washing landscapes clean

Rolling from blue heavens, a threshold of green

Than we, kissed by sunshine’s friendly howdy-do

Counting age-old blessings as if they were new

Peering like schoolchildren, out to yonder clime

Tossed by zephyrs peeling, ‘almost recess time’

Teasing bees from slumber, then the butterfly

Drawing from the garden, snow-white lullaby

Rousing in the farmer, vigor’s vim renewed

Spring is like a charmer, waking gratitude

Gratitude for seasons running through a hand

That created nature to heed his command

While we, glad with reasons that never grow old

Fling open stiff windows long closed to the cold

Hailing hope’s revival akin to the joy

Of welcoming home prodigal girl or boy

Like a celebration as wondrous rebirth

Ushers transformation to both hearts and earth

Comforting the ruddy, winter-weary reed

With a gentle study of pods run to seed

Probing autumn’s castoffs, tucked into the sod

Being kindly whispered back to life by God

He deserves the glory as hearts and buds brim

Is there on earth any more appealing Hymn?

© Janet Martin

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