A STAR COMES SINGING
So toward the infinite space man's arms of light reach out,
Beholding, weighing: measuring, interpreting.
Beholding, weighing: measuring, interpreting.
With ears and eyes he takes the undulant waves of energy,
And they stir him strangely: light and sound.
He dares to pilfer pitiful fragments of the reason of things,
This tiny piece claiming to understand
The limitless machine of which it is a part.
And they stir him strangely: light and sound.
He dares to pilfer pitiful fragments of the reason of things,
This tiny piece claiming to understand
The limitless machine of which it is a part.
He builds cloudy religions and dizzy philosophies.
The spiraling earth climbs higher;
His dizzy structures topple, his clouds dissolve.
The spiraling earth climbs higher;
His dizzy structures topple, his clouds dissolve.
The earth is littered with his wrecks,
And the wrecks of the slower blunderers before him.
The shore of the future is reefed and breakered.
There will be no man-made craft
That shall ever pass its final reef.
And the wrecks of the slower blunderers before him.
The shore of the future is reefed and breakered.
There will be no man-made craft
That shall ever pass its final reef.
What a flower of the dust is man!
Rock, given ears and eyes and feeling,
Rock, given ears and eyes and feeling,
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