Praise the Lord

 Praise the Lord

Praise the Lord who made the earth

Inside the symmetry of a solar system

Whose sisters number billions

Across the mighty Milky Way. 


He made our galaxy no orphan

Arm in arm with cousin Andromeda

One among two trillion galaxies

And more we’ll never see. 


On this blue planet he made man 

Product of four billion years

And countless starry nights

Under an uncertain sky. 


Begot of luck and skill

Pure chance and a hand divine

That chose this blessed corner

To hear his story told 


In song and verse and hymn

Rising through the spires of churches

Far and wide across the oceans

The peoples came and prayed. 


Now no longer time to praise the Lord,

Sundays busy now with children’s games  

The sound of praise has dimmed across the skies

Empty churches lie vacant among the valleys.  


Forgotten God becomes forgetting God

He loses interest for they have too

So alone they spin across the void upon their own

Unsure, not knowing where the galaxy will wend.  

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