Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space
Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


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.





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