THE JOY OF CREATION.

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.