O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs



O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
    With room for body and for spirit too,
      How patient while your children vex their souls
    Devising alien heavens beyond your blue!
    Dear dwelling of the immortal and unseen,
    How obstinate in my blindness have I been,
      Not comprehending what your tender calls,
    Veiled promises and reassurance, mean.
    Not far and cold the way that they have gone
  Who through your sundering darkness have withdrawn;
    Almost within our hand-reach they remain
  Who pass beyond the sequence of the dawn.

  Not far and strange the Heaven, but very near,
  Your children's hearts unknowingly hold dear.
    At times we almost catch the door swung wide.
  An unforgotten voice almost we hear.

  I am the heir of Heaven -- and you are just.
  You, you alone I know -- and you I trust.
    I have sought God beyond His farthest star --  
  But here I find Him, in your quickening dust.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXABXXBCCXC DDXX EEXE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 941
Words 158
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 12, 4, 4

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. more…

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