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Hath The Rain A Father? Or Who Hath Begotten The Drops of Dew? Job 38:28
We say, “It rains.” Slow of belief the Age;Its very words its unbelief doth show;
Forgot the lessons of the sacred page,
Spoken by men of faith so long ago!
No farther than they see, men's faith extends;
The mighty changes of the earth and sky
To them are causeless all, where Science ends;
An Unseen Cause they know not, or deny.
They hear not in the whirlwind, or the storm,
The mighty Voice, which spake to man of old;
They see not in the clouds of heaven his form,
Nor in his ceaseless works his power behold;
Who maketh small the countless drops of rain,
And sends soft showers upon the springing grain.
Poem No. 764; October 1865
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