Day passeth day in sunshine or shadow, <br />Night unto night each cycle is told; <br />Sun, moon and stars in whirling and glamour, <br />All unto all the creation unfold. <br /> <br />What of the strivings, what of the gropings, <br />Out from the darkness into the light? <br />What of the weepings, what of the grievings <br />Now from the day to the passionate night? <br /> <br />Stars of the stars, heavens of the heavens, <br />Rising or falling or pausing a span, <br />Each to the great "I am" replying <br />E'en as the crystal, e'en as man. <br /> <br />Chant of the worlds from aeon to aeon, <br />Song of the soul from dust unto dust, <br />Dream of the clods that, upward and starward, <br />Rise to the call of the primal "Thou must." <br /> <br />Space beyond space, eternity's vision, <br />Chaos to chaos, calm unto calm, <br />World beneath world, heaven above heaven, <br />Life but the urge, death but the balm.<br /><br />Joseph Seamon Cotter<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ego/
