O Nature!

(This was written at Philmont when one of my crews was doing their service project. There is so much out there if you just sit and listen.)

O Nature! How you call me by name!
The birds and streams play the symphony
Always identical but never the same
Song of Nature in perfect harmony.

The canyons echo the melodic tune.
It can be heard upon the mountains high.
The chorus is strengthened by the sun and moon,
And in the night the song is still a sigh.

The flowers in the meadow, the trees in the wood,
Give living testimony to the unparalleled beauty
That even against the wheel of time has withstood
Forever singing, nature plays its eternal duty.