Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH


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EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fire-mist and a planet
Last Line: And others call it god.
Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology


A FIRE MIST and a planet --
A crystal and a cell, --
A jellyfish and a saurian,
And caves where the cave men dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod --
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.

A haze on the far horizon,
The infinite, tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields,
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the goldenrod --
Some of us call it Autumn,
And others call it God.

Like tides on a crescent sea beach,
When the moon is new and thin,
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in --
Come from the mystic ocean,
Whose rim no foot has trod --
Some of us call it Longing,
And others call it God.

A picket frozen on duty,
A mother starved for her brood,
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who, humble and nameless,
The straight, hard pathway plod --
Some call it Consecration,
And others call it God.





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