Emerging Life

Watercolour by Margaret M Brownlow

Pure Spirit dwelt in Spirit heights

Immortal all in Heaven's rays

Above Earth's formless void.

Then God breathed; The Word

First came Light and Darkness both

And to the Firmament plight our troth.

Seas, Moon and Stars in power declared

The Seasons changing forms.

Fowl to fly the eye of storms,

Great and small fish the seas to swim,

Moving, creeping creatures the earth to win;

But over all was Man's dominion made,

God upon him great power laid,

To multiply, replenish and subdue the earth,

To take and eat withouten dearth.

All this, He saw, could not be bested,

So six days passed and then He rested.

                                                                 R.E.B