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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMANENCE, by FRANCIS BARRIE FLINT
First Line: And canst thou find god in the crystal sphere
Last Line: Or canst thou smile to see god's immanence?
Subject(s): God
First Line: And canst thou find god in the crystal sphere
Last Line: Or canst thou smile to see god's immanence?
Subject(s): God
And canst thou find God in the crystal sphere
Which hangs from every grass blade in the dawn?
And dost thou find the Infinite more near
When breath of summer bows the waving corn?
And has the formless deep of night no soul?
Is it mere chaos—or a God-filled whole?
Is silence nothing more than sign of death,
Or dull restraint of life's activity?
Canst thou not feel o'er all the Spirit's breath—
That sure disproof of our mortality?
And does the cosmic vast appal thy sense,
Or canst thou smile to see God's immanence?
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