William Brighty Rands is a well-known English writer and written several nursery rhymes for children.
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast−
world, you are beautifully dressed
The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
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.
You friendly Earth, how far do you go,
With the wheat-fields that nod and rivers that flow,
With cities and gardens, and cliffs, 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 seemed to say,
"You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!"
What is the world wearing?
How can we tell that the wind walks over the water?
According to the speaker, what are the things we find on Earth ?
Why is the Earth 'friendly'?
I tremble to think of you, World, at all. Why does the speaker tremble to think of the Earth?
Does the speaker's thoughts change by the end of the poem? If so, why does this happen?