Seeing at last how each thing here beneath The glimmering stars is lawful: having found By a wide watch how scrupulously Death To keep his tacit promises is bound, How from their vagrance the disbanded dusts Resume integrity in blood or bloom, How punctually the sunstruck red rose thrusts Its rigid flame into the golden gloom -- Knowing that ultimate prospect where appears The accurate ebb and flood of furious water, The undirected wind's clean course, the sphere's Deliberate strong spinning, I would utter No question now, nor prosecute in words Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUMAN LIFE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI MEMORY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 94. AL-HADI by EDWIN ARNOLD MESSAGES by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE WINTER TREES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS |