Because I cannot speak the word The greatest human lips have known; Because my ear may not have heard The mightiest of God's thunder-tone; Because I could not probe the heart To depths which God alone should see, I have despised the humbler part With which the Master trusted me. O bastard gifts of unknown birth! O soul that cannot read the skies! A vaunt thy offerings, little worth! Deaf ears accursed and blinded eyes! |