Music:”What A Wonderful World”

Singer: Louis Armstrong

POEMS FOR GENERATIONS

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens,

Each little bird that sings, God made their glowing colors,

And made their tiny wings. The purple headed mountains,

The river running by, The sunset and the morning That brightens up the sky.

The cold wind in the winter, The pleasant summer sun,

The ripe fruits in the garden: God made them every one.

The tall trees in the greenwood,

The meadows where we play,

The rushes by the water, We gather every day.

God gave us eyes to see them,

And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty,

Who has made all things well.

Cecil F. H. Alexander (1848)

Beautiful earth, as I have looked upon you, how often has my spirit leapt into songwith huge happiness! How I have craved

to get a firm grip on you ocean-girdled waist and keep it pressed to my breast;

to spread myself in every direction, as pervasiveand boundless as the morning sun; to danceall day long upon forests, upon mountains,

on the undulations of trembling leaves; to kissevery flower that buds; to embrace

all the tender densely growing greenswards;to oscillate as on a swing of delighton every wave; and quietly at night

with hushed footsteps to come as cosmic sleep,stroking the eyes of all your birds and beasts

with my own fingers, entering every bed,nest, home, cave, den that there is, spreading myself

like a gigantic sari-end uponall that exists, cloaking it

with the gentlest darkness!

Poet: Unknown

Created by Thong Ba Le