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Do you see this grain of sand / Lying loosely in my hand?
Do you know to me it brought / Just a simple loving thought?
When one gazes night by night / On the glorious stars of light, / Oh how little seems the span / Measured round the life of man.
Oh! how fleeting are his years / With their smiles and their tears; / Can it be that God does care / For such atoms as we are?
Then outspake this grain of sand / "I was fashioned by His hand / In the star lit realms of space / I was made to have a place.
"Should the ocean flood the world, / Were its mountains 'gainst me hurled, / All the force they could employ / Wouldn't a single grain destroy; / And if I, a thing so light, / Have a place within His sight; / You are linked unto his throne / Cannot live nor die alone.
"In the everlasting arms / Mid life's dangers and alarms / Let calm trust your spirit fill; / Know He's God, and then be still."
Trustingly I raised my head / Hearing what the atom said; / Knowing man is greater far / Than the brightest sun or star.