| Show GREAT1OVS 3LVSTERPIEOE In mists and darkness grew that wondrous won-drous plan The rockribbed frame the blue of dome and deep The shining spheres that patient vigils keep And gorgeous bloomer and growing things that span This whilring ball When qulckning life began S To thrill the myraid forms that blindly creep Through moistened depths or poise awing or leap Or walk then in his image made he man Now silence reigned oer all the virgin land Hushed were the newmade voices S hushed the breeze Aw d nature stilled the whispring of the trees And harkened Then he spake At his command Lo from the sleeping Image at his feet A woman rose Creation was complete Httlda T Hollands Detroit Tribune |