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"i Wonder Why?"

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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There comes a query oft to me, From one who thinks 1 ought to fenow The helght and depth of mystery- The "wherefore" of the "it is 80." And childish form, with bated breath, Wit h parted lipa and plending eye. Stands waltinu lor the ' What he salth," In answer to the "I wonder why?" "What glves the violet lts line, The fern it8 fraglle form and grace? Why doth the rivulet pursue lts ceaseless conree tor us to trace? Why bloom the flowers, why grow the trees, And spread their branches wiĆ¼e and high? Why sine the cheerful chickadees. On leafless busb? I wonder why?" All these I answer as I can' And yet the little mald asks on, And lier soft eyes my own eyes scan, Perchance a new reply to con. Till I am faln to ask with zegt, For ciearer knowledge from on high. Of my own duty. God's beheat. And like my child, "I wonder why?" Deep problems meet us in the wood, Afleid, and by the stream and sea. We see what is not uuderstood About us, and that ne'er eau be, Whether we wonder far or stay In cloister, hid from mortals eye. We 'bide with mystery nlght and day, And of it all we "wonder wby?" So 'tis not strange a child oft asks. To know the "wherefore" ol thefact; To understand what vainly tasks Philosophy, with all ils tact, We all are children, striving oft To know what comes before the eye. Childllke, we vainly look aloft, And ask aud ask, ' I wonder why?"

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Ann Arbor Courier