Wonder Without Cease

As a youth unconscious, unaware

I revelled in the mystic life of soil

And verdant branches fragrant, flower-hung,

Her mysteries revealed in youthful toil.

For as I laboured and into manhood grew

I sensed a sealed divinity in things

Felt a Grace surround yet hardly knew

The occult Presence that in the life-force sings.

Years have passed and genius I have seen,

God-men who see beyond the walls of form

And comprehend the soul within the seed

Awake to the wisdom that works in star and storm.

And now I feel at times that perfect peace,

The secret Will and wonder without cease.