Why Is Our Sight Drawn in The Night?

Why Is Our Sight Drawn in The Night? 

(could be sung to the tune to Star of The County Down)

 

Sol by the author (Acrylic)

Why is our sight

drawn in the night

to the planets, the moon and stars?

There’s wonder there

of God’s great dare

to create a universe.

So my soul shall sing,

O Creator king,

of the vastness that’s all around;

and the wondrous spin 

that holds us in

to our orbiting planet’s round.

 

Refrain

And way out there,

beyond our stare

are unearthly days and nights.

Wild gases burn

as the cosmos turns

with a billion, trillion lights.

 

And today we know

time began to flow

from creation’s wild big bang.

When space emerged 

at your mighty word

and with joy, your angels sang:

for all was good

and in time Earth would

form with others around the sun,

a planet fair

with sustaining air,

as our saga just begun

 

Refrain

 

In the course of time

With the earth benign

Life emerged at God’s command.

‘O human race

respect the grace

Of the sky, the sea, the land,

And nurture it through all your days,

It will give you food and joy.

Don’t tarnish it

or it won’t be fit

and too soon could be destroyed.’

 

Refrain