The Country Faith
Here in the country’s heart
Where the grass is green,
Life is the same sweet life
As it e’er hath been.
Trust in a God still lives,
And the bell at morn
Floats with a thought of God
O’er the rising corn.
God comes down in the rain,
And the crop grows tall —
This is the country faith,
And the best of all!
~~
Norman Gale (1862-1942)
from A Country Muse: New series, 1893
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]
Nxr-at, Maize fields in July, Oststeiermark, 2009. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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