Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WISDOM, by LOIS WELLS


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WISDOM, by                    
First Line: I clutched a broken toy in childish fingers
Last Line: I am no wiser than the child I was.
Subject(s): Wisdom


I clutched a broken toy in childish fingers,
And sobbed my heart out at my mother's knee.
No other plaything could be half so lovely—
No other ever take its place with me.

I stood full soon beside a flower-decked casket,
And gazed on one I loved with anguished eyes,
And thought, "I can't go on! Life is too futile!
Is there no God in heaven to hear my cries?"

I watched you go, and e'en though with your going
A little song within my heart grew still,
I faced new heights with grim determination,
And found a strange new strength to climb the hill.

'Tis hard for us to understand the wisdom
Of that almighty plan designed above,
For though we are no better off for knowing
We learn to do without the things we love.

So pondering thy ways, O God of all things—
Seeking to understand thy mystic laws—
I realize anew with strange awakening
I am no wiser than the child I was.





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