The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-18
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Is, 1926.

By James Weldon Johnson
And God stepped out on space,
And he looked around and said,
"I'm lonely
I'll make me a world"
And far as the eye of God could see
Darkness covered everything,
Blacker than hundred midnights
Down in cypress swamp.
Then God smiled,
And the light broke,
And the darkness rolled up one side,
And the light stood shining on the other,
And God said, "That's good!''
Then God reached out and took the light in his
hands,
And God rolled the light around in his hands,
Until he made the sun;
And he set the sun a-blazing in the heavens.
And the light that was left from making the sun
God gathered it up in shining ball
And flung it against the darkness,
Spangling the night with the moon and stars.
Then down between
The darkness and the light
He hurled the world;
And God said, THAT'S good!'
Then God himself stepped down
And the sun was on his right hand,
And the moon was on his left;
The stars were clustered above his head
And the earth under his feet.
And God walked and where he trod
His footsteps followed the valleys out
And bulged the mountains up.
Then he stopped and looked and saw
That the earth was hot and barren.
So God stepped over to the edge of the world
And he spat out the seven seas;
He batted his eyes and the lightnngs flashed;
He clapped his hands and the thunders rolled;
And the waters above the earth came down.
The cooling waters came down.
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Then the green grass sprouted, e
And the little red flowers bossomed,
The pine tree pointed his finger to the sky,
And the oak spread out his arms,
The lakes cuddled down in the hollows of the
- ground
And the rivers ran down to the seas;
And God smiled again,
And the rainbow appeared,
And curled around his shoulder. - = r.
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Then God raised his arm and he waved his hand
Over the sea and over the land,
And he said, Bring forth! Bring forth!'
And quicker than God could drop his hand,
Fishes and fowls,
And beasts and birds
Swan the rivers and the seas,
Roamed the forests and the wood,
And split the air with their wings.
And God said, THAT'S good!'
Then God walked around
And God looked around
On all that he had made.
He looked at his sum-
And he looked at his moon,
And he looked at his little stars;
He looked on his world,
With all its living things
And God said "Pm lonely still.'
Then God sat down
On the side of a hill where he could think;
By deep wide river he sat down;
With his head in his hands
God thought and thought,
Till he thought, "I1l make me mani"
Up from the bed of the river
And by the bank Of the river,
God scooped the clay;
He knelt him down;
And there the great God Almighty,
Who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky
Who flung the stars to the most far corner OF
the night,
Who rounded the earth in the middle of his hand
This great God,
Like nanny bending over her baby,
Kneeled down in the dust
Toiling lump of clay,
Till he shaped it in his image;
Then into it he blew the breath of life,
And man became living soul.
Amen, Amen
The Freeman.
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