In six days God created earth,

With man to rule it all.

He made the mountains and the lakes

As well as forests tall.

He bedecked the land with flowers,

And with odors fresh and sweet.

And the evening of the sixth day

Found the earth now all complete.

And when he viewed his handiwork

Upon the seventh day,

One flower family caught his eye

and caused the Lord to say,

"Their blooms are surely regal,

And their beauty is supreme,

For their different forms and colors

Constitute a poet's dream."

Then God knelt down and blessed

These plants and tenderly he said,

"I'll call this family Orchids,

And its numbers shall spread

To all the regions of this earth,

And its blooms shall be the queen

Of all the flowers I have made,

For none finer shall be seen."

By Clarence S. Lindsten