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Show JUST FOLKS S8 . , .. j a ... THE DOUBTER He looked at the world through his limited sight, 8aw sunrise at morning and stars shine at night; 1 bud in the springtime and songbirds return. And. baffled by secrets he struggled to learn. He said out of chaos and slime earth and man By chance were produced without purpose- and plan. 7,honh never he spoke it, and this is my line. He thought there no wisdom that's greater than mine. - To chance and to havoc and not to some law The credit he gave for what beauty he saw. No faith, no belief, marked hi toll, night or day: He wa honest because he had learned It would In a worl that's so full of such mysteries deep As red and white roses and waking from sleep; The seasons, the creature to instinct condemned. The ocean, the mountains, the skies, starry- . gemmed, . Th laughter, the pity, the rich mind of man. it Is hard to believe life lacks purpose and plan. t |