Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVOLUTION (ACCORDING TO MAETERLINCK), by FRANCES REUBELT


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EVOLUTION (ACCORDING TO MAETERLINCK), by                    
First Line: Beneath the earth and hating sun and light
Last Line: And climbs the radiant way to heaven and god.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Evolution; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets


Beneath the earth and hating sun and light
The ugly termite crawls and delves in gloom
Till everlasting blindness is its doom
And, wings cast off, it knows not joy of flight.
But from the same dark past, the same black night,
Emerged the bee. It sought the air, perfume,
And chose with wisdom every fairest bloom.
So now it soars on high in pure delight.
Thus Evolution does its course reveal,
Thus Nature points her lesson, stern and plain,
The destiny of man for woe or weal.
One path leads down through fruitless toil and pain,
One leaves the earth behind, the clinging sod,
And climbs the radiant way to heaven and God.





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