Out of the great constellations Surging in orbits of fire, Universe piled upon universe, Higher, and higher, and higher; Up from the chasms of ether, Brighter than light from the sun, Whiter than Delian marble, Comes the spiritual force of the One -- Springs in a pulsating current Like the unrolling surge of the sea, Endowing with life as it passes An atom, a world, or a tree. It seeks not; but present, inherent, Has one universal abode, And finds its great source and inception In the manifold Being of God. I wait on the mystical union, Attuned to the sweep of the spheres, Feeling the immanent wonder Out where the lone comet steers, Or down in the cell of amoeba, Or up from the rich, pregnant sod I am filled with the infinite wonder Of the great, the omnipotent God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FEW RULES FOR BEGINNERS by KATHERINE MANSFIELD INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE by JAMES GALVIN WESTERN CIVILIZATION by JAMES GALVIN PROVING by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON BEFORE A PAINTING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES by AMY LOWELL A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS by KENNETH PATCHEN |