A MILLION globes awhirl in unlit space, Yet like to lamps that light the truth for men. For every star that turns a golden face, What agonies, what raptures past our ken! Will love be love up yonder, fear be fear, We earthlings know so sadly, now and here? A universal tremor, blindly guessed, Strikes through the void, with messages of fire; The half has not been told, the unexpressed Is more than words, than prophecy is higher. The austere armies driven down the skies, Whither their haven? Faith alone replies. Insensate rock gives out a secret gleam; New life, and strange, abruptly breaks the sod. Through a glass darkly, now; yet some man's dream May yield a vision that is close to God. -- Slowly, from link to link we build, to find, At last, the meaning of the Master-mind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LENTEN GREETING; TO A LADY by GEORGE SANTAYANA CHIQUITA by FRANCIS BRET HARTE LOUISA MAY ALCOTT by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 12. THE CREATOR by EDWIN ARNOLD THE SHRINE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES; A TRAGEDY by ROBERT BROWNING |