Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE


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GOD'S EYES, by                    
First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes
Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade.
Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth


FATHER, what colour are God's eyes?

Guess, sweetheart. You shall have three tries.

Then are they blue?

Yes, bluer far
Than where the highest heavens are.

I cannot think of eyes so blue.

God's eyes are brown.

Father, but you
Told me just now my guess was true.

Still, sweetheart, not the earthy loam
Is brown as are His eyes, the home
Of russet, sepia, and chrome.

Father, I do not understand.

God's eyes are golden, dear; when land
And sea are bathed in sunset glow,
And holiness seems brooding low,
The eyes of God are there also;
And when the first faint violet hue
Steals tremblingly the petals through
Till its full life is pulsing new,
The flower lifts those eyes to you.
When in the woods the drooping day
Watches the whirling leaves at play,
Then well we wit God's eyes are gray;
And, sweetheart, when each quiet night
You fold your hands so sure and tight,
And, with your fresh young soul alight,
Tell to the Father every mite,
Those all-seeing eyes are purest white.

Is it all true as true can be?

I would not tease you, small Marie!
Nay, you must watch and see, dear maid,
When next the bow in heaven is laid,
God's eyes change slow from shade to shade.





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