A Grain Of Sand.

Do you see this grain of sand      Lying loosely in my hand?      Do you know to me it brought      Just a simple loving thought?      When one gazes night by night      On the glorious stars of light,      Oh how little seems the span      Measured round the life of man.      Oh! how fleeting are his years      With their smiles and their tears;      Can it be that God does care      For such atoms as we are?      Then outspake this grain of sand      "I was fashioned by His hand      In the star lit realms of space      I was made to have a place.      "Should the ocean flood the world,      Were its mountains 'gainst me hurled      All the force they could employ      Wouldn't a single grain destroy;      And if I, a thing so light,      Have a place within His sight;      You are linked unto his throne      Cannot live nor die alone.      In the everlasting arms      Mid life's dangers and alarms      Let calm trust your spirit fill;      Know He's God, and then be still."      Trustingly I raised my head      Hearing what the atom said;      Knowing man is greater far      Than the brightest sun or star.