HOW good the Universe can be!—What now? How many fail this moment from their assigned Fixed hour! is the Universe then blind To them, or does it turn a hostile brow Upon their needs and to me favour show Having a variable and lawless mind, Benevolent now and now again unkind, Luck in its depth as on its surface? No, But if the myriad wills that live and work In its will, so fall that this hour is free, Foiling the contradiction we feel lurk In all things, shall not the Universe rejoice Through its whole mind, with its least child, with me, In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAID OF NEIDPATH by WALTER SCOTT AN INVOCATION by ISIDORE G. ASCHER SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 11. THE GREEK POET IN ENGLAND by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 7. OF HOSPITALITY by WILLIAM BASSE THE PLUME by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN TIMON'S EPITAPH by CALLIMACHUS |