8/18/2019 POEM Wonderful World

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William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)

Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,

With the wonderful water round you curled,

And the wonderful grass upon your breast--

World, you are beautifully drest.

 The wonderful air is over me,

And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,

And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

 ou friendly !arth" #ow far do you go$

With the wheat-%elds that nod and the rivers that &ow,

With cities and gardens, and cli's, and isles,

And people upon you for thousands of miles$

Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,

I tremble to think of you, World, at all(

And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,

A whisper inside me seemed to say,

)ou are more than the !arth, though you are such a dot*

 ou can love and think, and the !arth cannot"+

8/18/2019 POEM Wonderful World

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William Brighty Rands born on /. #e was a 0ritish writer and one of 

the ma1or authors of nursery rhymes of 2ictorian era.

#e was a son of candle maker. #e masters many languages and was mostly

self-taught, starting to read early and mastering 3atin, Greek, and after

starting an o4ce career with an international merchant, also 5panish and6rench. #is appreciation of languages he carried through life, studying

7hinese in his latest years.

In this poem, the poetry describe the world are big and large but the si8e

cannot compare with the ability.

#ere goes the poem and please en1oy.