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To What Purpose Is This Waste?
A windy shell singing upon the shore: A lily budding in a desert place; Blooming alone With no companion To praise its perfect perfume and its grace: A rose crimson and blushing at the core, Hedged in with thorns behind it and before: A fountain in the grass, Whose shadowy waters pass Only to nourish birds and furnish food For squirrels of the wood: An oak deep in the forest’s heart, the house Of black-eyed tiny mouse; Its strong roots fit for fuel roofing in The hoarded nuts, acorns and grains of wheat; Shutting them from the wind and scorching heat, And sheltering them when the rains begin: A precious pearl deep buried in the sea Where none save fishes be: The fullest merriest note For which the skylark strains his silver throat, Heard only in the sky By other birds that fitfully Chase one another as they fly: The ripest plum down tumbled to the ground By southern winds most musical of sound, But by no thirsty traveller found: Honey of wild bees in their ordered cells Stored, not for human mouths to taste:— I said, smiling superior down: What waste Of good, where no man dwells. This I said on a pleasant day in June Before the sun had set, tho’ a white moon Already flaked the quiet blue Which not a star looked thro’. But still the air was warm, and drowsily It blew into my face: So since that same day I had wandered deep Into the country, I sought out a place For rest beneath a tree, And very soon forgot myself in sleep: Not so mine own words had forgotten me. Mine eyes were opened to behold All hidden things, And mine ears heard all secret whisperings: So my proud tongue that had been bold To carp and to reprove, Was silenced by the force of utter Love. All voices of all things inanimate Join with the song of Angels and the song Of blessed Spirits, chiming with Their Hallelujahs. One wind wakeneth Across the sleeping sea, crisping along The waves, and brushes thro’ the great Forests and tangled hedges, and calls out Of rivers a clear sound, And makes the ripe corn rustle on the ground, And murmurs in a shell; Till all their voices swell Above the clouds in one loud hymn Joining the song of Seraphim, Or like pure incense circle round about The walls of Heaven, or like a well-spring rise In shady Paradise. A lily blossoming unseen Holds honey in its silver cup Whereon a bee may sup, Till being full she takes the rest And stores it in her waxen nest: While the fair blossom lifted up On its one stately stem of green Is type of her, the Undefiled, Arrayed in white, whose eyes are mild As a white dove’s, whose garment is Blood-cleansed from all impurities And earthly taints, Her robe the righteousness of Saints. And other eyes than our’s Were made to look on flowers, Eyes of small birds and insects small: The deep sun-blushing rose Round which the prickles close Opens her bosom to them all. The tiniest living thing That soars on feathered wing, Or crawls among the long grass out of sight, Has just as good a right To its appointed portion of delight As any King. Why should we grudge a hidden water stream To birds and squirrels while we have enough? As if a nightingale should cease to sing Lest we should hear, or finch leafed out of sight Warbling its fill in summer light; As if sweet violets in the spring Should cease to blow, for fear our path should seem Less weary or less rough. So every oak that stands a house For skilful mouse, And year by year renews its strength, Shakes acorns from a hundred boughs Which shall be oaks at length. Who hath weighed the waters and shall say What is hidden in the depths from day? Pearls and precious stones and golden sands, Wondrous weeds and blossoms rare, Kept back from human hands, But good and fair, A silent praise as pain is silent prayer. A hymn, an incense rising toward the skies, As our whole life should rise; An offering without stint from earth below, Which Love accepteth so. Thus is it with a warbling bird, With fruit bloom-ripe and full of seed, With honey which the wild bees draw From flowers, and store for future need By a perpetual law. We want the faith that hath not seen Indeed, but hath believed His truth Who witnessed that His work was good: So we pass cold to age from youth. Alas for us: for we have heard And known, but have not understood. O earth, earth, earth, thou yet shalt bow Who art so fair and lifted up, Thou yet shalt drain the bitter cup. Men’s eyes that wait upon thee now, All eyes shall see thee lost and mean, Exposed and valued at thy worth, While thou shalt stand ashamed and dumb.— Ah, when the Son of Man shall come, Shall He find faith upon the earth?—