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Through The Eyes Of A Child





Through The Eyes Of A Child

song copyright 1989--L. R. Sullins


"Through The Eyes Of A Child" -- Lisa Rae






I held a hand I held it tightly

Of a little boy whose eyes looked up brightly

At the wonders of the Gunnison, Arches and Yellowstone Park

The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado; Kneeling Camel View



Delicate Arch framing the mountains, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah



Union Falls at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming



Then he reached out to touch the stars

Above the Rockies in the dark.



Stars/The Milky Way over the Rocky Mountains, Colorado



He likes his small foot prints on every beach

From Maine to Texas to Alaska they reach

Scarbourgh Beach, Maine



Texas Beach



Beach at Kenai, Alaska



The waves are might scarey things, but they wash in pretty shells

And he can't get over the feel of the sand

The fishing boats and smells.



Shrimp Boats at Venice, Louisiana



A wheat field that is dancing to the wind

Wheat field



Makes him giggle and I have to grin

The Ozarks have wiggly roads and Alabama says "ya'll"

Highway 341, Ozark National Park, Baxter and Stone Counties, Arkansas



But I could never replace the look on his face

When he heard a bull moose call.


Bull Moose

Compliments of Don Getty Wildlife Photography--all rights reserved


He tries to imitate the whippoorwill

Whippoorwill Male



One day he'll catch that catfish, yes he will

Catfish



I've traveled all across this land, I love everything I see

But there's nothing like a three year old to make you stop and think.


If we keep clearing all the fields and trees

The clearing of a beautiful park-like setting for another housing development...why not rehab older homes? The ones we already have THAT ARE EMPTY AND FALLING APART??? The land was 'a no longer used golf course', that was full of wild life, and people had began to take nature walks through it and walk their dogs there. Not now, not anymore...what a shame.



What will he take his small son to see

Mile high buildings, smoking factories and a sky that's never blue

Where is the land? Buildings as far as the eye can see!



Is "air pollution" truly never ending???



Is this our children's future? Never to know a blue sky or trees? Just buildings and houses?

Through his eyes I see the beauty

That we all will lose.



So Mister President with all your power

Help to save this great land of ours

Let us keep our national parks and our wildlife in the wild

And take time to look at these United States

Through the eyes of a child.






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