When God created heaven and earth and brought the entire world to birth,
He made the sky, He made the stars, He made the sun and earth and Mars
The great creations work He wrought and man into the world He brought.
But then His hand created more, I wonder what He made them for?
God didn’t need to make us flowers so beautiful in beds and bowers,
The smallest snowdrop in the spring is fairer far than anything.
Man’s hand can fashion or design, yet in it’s sweetness it is mine.
The daffodil, narcissus fair, God didn’t need to place them there.
He didn’t need to make a rose that fragrant fair in garden grows,
He didn’t need to make a tree so stately tall and blowing free.
He didn’t need to make a stream, where we can idly sit and dream,
Or birds to sing and fill the air with music for our ears to hear.
The lily of the valley neat perfumes the air with fragrance sweet,
God didn’t need to make it so, without it’s scent it still could grow.
The numbers of these extra gifts from God’s own hands our spirits lift.
They help to make our lives worthwhile they help us laugh, they help us smile.
But OH the greatest gift we know, God sent His son on earth to grow.
To be a man and then to die that we might live with Him on high.
He didn’t need this gift to make, to sacrifice Christ for our sake,
But yet He did and so I say “Let us rejoice on Easter Day”
For Christ arose to live forever, no power on earth that bond can sever.
“Twixt Him and us, so let us sing” He lives for aye, our Lord and King.
