A Print Shop Incident - A poem by William Allen White

How It Happened.

WHEN God was aglow with His work on the
   world,
   That stood on the structure of Faith,
He hewed out the Winter and lustily whirled
His hammer aloft, and with fancy unfurled
He dreamed out the Summer; then aS His lips
   curled
   In a smile (like a Heavenly wraith,)
His hands slowly fashioned the smile of His face,
   And wrought there the beautious thing
Unknown to the Worker who bent o'er the Place
Where Winter should be^___full of joy at the grace
Of His dream;but at last, God beholding the
   trace
   Of His smile on the world^___called it Spring.

^__William Allen White.