The past few days have been so great with the wonderful rains...it brought to mind a poem I remember from my childhood and I found it online.


I SAW GOD WASH THE WORLD

I saw God wash the world last night
With his sweet showers on high,
And then, when morning came, I saw
Him hang it out to dry.
..
He washed each tiny blade of grass
And every trembling tree;
He flung his showers against the hill,
And swept the billowing sea.
...
The white rose is a cleaner white.
The red rose is more red,
Since God washed every fragrant face
And put them all to bed.
..
There's not a bird, there's not a bee
That wings along the way
But is a cleaner bird and bee
Than it was yesterday.
...
I saw God wash the world last night.
Ah, would he had washed me
As clean of all my dust and dirt
As that old white birch tree.
William L. Stidger