Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET (1), by GEORGE SANTAYANA


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First Line: You thought: 'the vaporous world on which I gaze'
Last Line: What higher heaven should his dwelling be?


You thought: "The vaporous world on which I gaze
Why is it beautiful? Why in the dome
Of silent heaven do the planets roam
In patient reckoning of the hallowed days?
Why do the resinous pine woods, the bays
Grey 'twixt the islets, or the pregnant loam
With keen sweet voices speak to me of home?
'Tis God within them hearkens to my praise."
To yours he may: to me the frozen sod
And barren stars are piteous, and no God
Called to me ever from the sullen sea.
Yet have I known him, in my soul apart
Worshiped him long, and found him in your heart --
What higher heaven should his dwelling be?





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