To tribulations of mankind Dame Nature is indifferent; To human sorrow she is blind, And deaf to human discontent. Mid fear and fratricidal fray, Mid woe and tyranny of toil, She goes her unregarding way Of sky and sun and soil. In leaf and blade, in bud and bloom Exultantly her gladness glows, And careless of Man's dreary doom Around the palm she wreathes the rose; Creating beauty everywhere, With happy bird in holy song . . . Please God, let us be unaware Like her of wrath and wrong. Let us too be indifferent, And in her hands our fate resign; Aye, though the world with rage is rent Let us be placid as the pine. For if we turn from greed and guile Maybe Dame Nature will relent, And bless us with her lovely smile Of comfort and content.