O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you <br />With room for body and for spirit too, <br />How patient while your children vex their souls <br />Devising alien heavens beyond your blue! <br /> <br />Dear dwelling of the immortal and unseen, <br />How obstinate in my blindness have I been, <br />Not comprehending what your tender calls, <br />Veiled promises and reassurance, mean. <br /> <br />Not far and cold the way that they have gone <br />Who through your sundering darkness have withdrawn; <br />Almost within our hand-reach they remain <br />Who pass beyond the sequence of the dawn. <br /> <br />Not far and strange the Heaven, but very near, <br />Your children's hearts unknowingly hold dear. <br />At times we almost catch the door swung wide. <br />An unforgotten voice almost we hear. <br /> <br />I am the heir of Heaven -- and you are just. <br />You, you alone I know -- and you I trust. <br />I have sought God beyond His farthest star -- <br />But here I find Him, in your quickening dust.<br /><br />Sir Charles GD Roberts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-earth-sufficing-all-our-needs-2/
