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 /> 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 /> 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 Who through your sundering darkness have withdrawn; 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 George Douglas Roberts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-earth-sufficing-all-our-needs/
