I love all lovely things— The dragon-fly’s wings, The rainbow and the rain, The light that comes again Joyously like a smile, When for a little while God disposes the night elsewhere. His sun is very fair, I can catch it in my hair. Look! It’s there! And there! And there! Oh! the earth’s a lovely thing, The mind of a Mighty King, I cannot help but sing. I cannot end my song, God’s thought is very long. Many years He took to make The bracken in the brake; He was a long time building The fragrant yellow gilding On the early poplar tree When no eye was there to see. The clouds, the atmosphere, My breath, the water clear, How fair and sweet they are! Oh! hate was very far From God’s divine intention When these things He did mention; When He canopied the earth With cloud, and fire, and mirth; When He set the privy shade For the pheasant in the glade; When He built the mossy nest For the wren, His little guest; When He taught the mind of man By its love to find His plan. For no one shall discover His science, save the lover. Oh! Life’s a lovely thing, The mind of a Mighty King! Emotion, will, desire, Earth, water, air, and fire, The elements intertwined, With these He built the mind; The love of green things growing, The shadows they keep throwing Across man’s fiery thought Till they’re fused and merged and wrought Into the liquid union Of one divine communion With God, Who made his college An earthly place of knowledge. I cannot help but sing, Life’s such a lovely thing! The catkin and the willow God’s chosen for His pillow. I wonder why He fashioned A Beauty so impassioned; I wonder why it matters Which way the raindrop patters, Or why a God should care To give His creatures share Of this delightful song. His love must be very strong. I cannot end my singing, For still the starling’s winging With a straw held in her beak To build in the old tree-peak; And still across the sky The compacted clouds go by; And when God thinks upon it The lily’s yellow bonnet Nid-nods delightfully Beneath the walnut tree. And clear, and still more clear, In God’s mind I read and hear That only Love shall learn The wherefore of flower and fern, That only Love alone Shall live to be full-grown, That merely Love and Wonder Shall bring all Heaven hereunder. [_Towards the end of the song the brown-sailed fishing-boat is seen approaching gradually under the rainbow. As it draws near, Finn and the Big Young Hero are seen in it with the puppy. It touches the shore, at first unperceived of the girl. The Big Young Hero leaps lightly from it, and helps Finn out._] FINN