God created the Heaven and the Earth There after created man, Dividing the changing seasons To the image of life's quartered span. Spring, with the newness of a baby, Fresh, untainted and free, Bound in no shackles of time But loved for its infancy. Children like the days of summer Changing, growing and gay, Ever in need of cultivation At school, at home and at play. Each autumn emerges the harvest, The middle age summit of life, Gleaned though the years of labor Is the consummate crop of strife. Winter brings down the final curtain On age, like an adder's sting- Yet, life can never lay dormant With the Creator's promise of spring. |