Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

by Laurel Latham

For flowers that bloom about our feet;

For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;

For song of bird, for hum of bee;

For all things fair we hear or see,

Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

For blue of stream and blue of sky;

For pleasant shade of branches high;

For fragrant air and cooling breeze;

For beauty of the blooming trees,

Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

For this new morning with its light;

For rest and shelter of the night;

For health and food, for love and friends;

For every thing His goodness sends,

Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The delicious fragranc...