When God With His Best Angels Met

When God With His Best Angels Met

When God with His best angels met

So as to say, “Let us Make Man,”

Those angels started to regret

What God by saying so began:

“Knowing what Man’ll do?” they said

(Into the future they could see

Through history what lay ahead

Of men’s disasters come to be)

But God (Who’d made the Crocodile)

Had reasons angels couldn’t plumb,

And knew that time was but a while,

And good could out of evil come;

Besides, He’d have a bigger plan

That angels couldn’t fathom; for

The meantime He would bet on Man

(In spite of all that lay in store.)