Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
I. Natures InfluenceThe Country Faith
Norman Gale (18621942)H
Where the grass is green,
Life is the same sweet life
As it e’er hath been.
And the bell at morn
Floats with a thought of God
O’er the rising corn.
And the crop grows tall—
This is the country faith,
And the best of all!