Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIGHT, by GRACE WILKINSON


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LIGHT, by                    
First Line: We cannot look beyond
Last Line: Thou, o my soul!
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


We cannot look beyond
The spectrum's mystic bar,
Beyond the violet light;
Yea, other lights there are,
And waves that touch us not,
Voyaging far.

Vast, ordered forces whirl
Invisible, unfelt;
Their language less than sound,
Their names unspelt.
Suns cannot brighten them
Nor white heat melt.

Here in the clammy dark
We dig, as dwarfs for coal;
Yet One Mind fashioned it
And us, a luminous whole:
As lastly thou shalt see,
Thou, O my soul!





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