"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas."— Blaise Pascal
God made a smile and the laughter
Tumbling from our mouths
Brightening our day, spreading His love
Throughout our house.
God made the humming bird and the mocking bird
Giving us merry song
Filling our hearts with His grace
'Till sorrow is gone.
Yes, God made a smile, giving it to the world
To enjoy forever.
Spread across the land, showing innocence
God and man together.
The magnificent might man mounted the mast
And proceeded across the face to be lashed
By rope and wind, by sea and swell,
Oh woe, on woe! mourns the twelfth bell.
Higher, yet higher he climbed to the sky
A sight, a speck of land to spy.
Ropes snapped as strings, the weather woefully wails
As secretly slip the songs from the sails.
The perilous plunge from the place he was perched,
If lanyard should happen to lunge or to lurch,
Would quickly kill him, cause him to crash below
And drift to the drink's deadly depths of despair
Without having uttered a speech or a prayer.
All this quickly crashed through the boggled-up brain
Of a restless, ragged rogue reformed by relentless rain.
My piece of Canada
Consisting of these
My grandparents with
Their memories.
Of days I have known
Of life on a farm
A life simply special
In ways simply warm.
I've grown with the tales
And lived them my own
Knowing from memories
Of this--my true home.
Stars and stripes forever
Is what we will see
Blowing over the land
As a reminder to you and me.
As a reminder to you and me
It still blows proud and free
Guarding the shores of the east and west
Telling us by God we are blest.
And so Old Glory still will wave
Over the land of the free
And the home of the brave.
God made the mountains so high
And the valleys so deep
That into them the angels might weep.
For all the people who are dying
The ones who have already gone
For the people who didn't get a chance
To hear of his saving Son.
And the angels did weep
To fill in each spot
So that others might see
What they've got.
And the rivers ran wild
And made beautiful song
So people might listen
And hear God speak all day long.