Why Is Our Sight Drawn in The Night?
(could be sung to the tune to Star of The County Down)
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