Orland Evangelical Free Church | Five Poems On Psalm 1

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You have said the righteous is like a tree

planted in a garden by a river.

Your river runs its course from spring to ocean

carving its slow and deep mark in the earth;

rushing its way through the wild lands,

stone gorges and meadows painfully green;

looping back and forth the valley like a string

in frozen fall to the mouth of the sea.

Where the river is most deep and slow

channels divert to water Your trees

and surround them as far as they might grow.

They grow tall from Your care and their roots

entangle for theirs is not to journey.

But the world passes by scoffing under their shade.

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