A Wealth of Pictures by John Kendrick Bangs

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1903

A Wealth of Pictures

By John Kendrick Bangs

THERE'S a wealth of lovely pictures in this blessed world of ours: There's the rainbow in the heavens after spring and summer showers, With its wondrous hues prismatic, with its perfect arching grace, From the zenith of its beauty to its distant misty base.

There's the sunrise o'er the mountains in the simmering August days; There's the sunset in the valley in a veil of bluish haze; There's the river flowing gently from the upland to the sea, Now all golden in the sunlight, in the shadow silvery.

There's the meadow full of clover, and the cattle grazing there— All is silent, all is peaceful, all is free from every care. There's the vista through the woodland, with its gorgeous autumn hue; There's the twinkling star a-peeping through the deepening evening blue.

There's the vast, unrestful ocean, 'neath a fair, unclouded sky; There's the dancing wave a-winking as the ships go sailing by; There's the garden with its flowers, with its roses all ablow; There's the very soul of purity, the first fresh fall of snow.

—John Kendrick Bangs.