Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COSMIC NOTE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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COSMIC NOTE, by                    
First Line: Not to mock us
Last Line: Where no thought is?
Subject(s): Knowledge


Not to mock us
Was the spider made
With the knowledge of bridge-builders
In his entrails;
Not for our confusion
Does the silly pigeon
Carry a compass in his eye,
Converting in everyday flight,
Space into time;
The squirrel, foretelling snow,
Reads a barometer
More prophetic
Than our own.

Yet, seeing our intricate inventions
Embodied in the unthinking parts
Of a hairy spinner,
A feathered dowager,
A furry ball—
Must we not peer
Between the layers of mist
That fold our convolutions,
For meaning overwhelming,
And tremble at the sight of mind revealed
Where no thought is?





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