Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIVINE PLAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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DIVINE PLAN, by                    
First Line: This grain of life, this tiny beast of dew
Last Line: Pain fitted to his size.
Subject(s): Life; Men


This grain of life, this tiny beast of dew
Climbing the grass, transparent, hardly won
From vegetable growth to sight and sense,
Is far too small, too new
To touch, save in his movement to the sun,
A man's experience.
His appetites, his frenzy, zeal and sin
Are mysteries too invisible to guess;
And yet, since on the grass he dares mount up,
I hazard of his life this one surmise
And claim him kin—
Such as he is, there is a fear to press
His vitals, measured to the hair,
Agony that shall fill him like a cup,
As much as he can bear,
Pain fitted to his size.





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