Читать книгу October and Other Poems with Occasional Verses on the War - Bridges Robert - Страница 7

Almighty wondrous everlasting

Whether in a cradle of astral whirlfire

Or globed in a piercing star thou slumb’rest

The impassive body of God:

Thou deep i’ the core of earth—Almighty!—

From numbing stress and gloom profound

Madest escape in life desirous

To embroider her thin-spun robe.

’Twas down in a wood—they tell—

In a running water thou sawest thyself

Or leaning over a pool: The sedges

Were twinn’d at the mirror’s brim

The sky was there and the trees—Almighty!—

A bird of a bird and white clouds floating

And seeing thou knewest thine own image

To love it beyond all else.

Then wondering didst thou speak

Of beauty and wisdom of art and worship

Didst build the fanes of Zeus and Apollo

The high cathedrals of Christ.

All that we love is thine—Almighty!—

Heart-felt music and lyric song

Language the eager grasp of knowledge

All that we think is thine.

But whence?—Beauteous everlasting!—

Whence and whither? Hast thou mistaken?

Or dost forget? Look again! Thou seest

A shadow and not thyself.