Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

SINGING ECOLOGY UNTO THE LORD 27

other formula for Creation—“the Lord shall rejoice in his works”—by plunging
back into nature with a breath-stopping image of temblor and fire: “The earth
shall tremble at the look of him: if he do but touch the hills, they shall smoke.”
Then after that cadence, divine duty finally peaks in a poet ’s credo: “I will sing
unto the Lord as long as I live.”