It's said that every species in the world <br />displays one gift beyond the scope of Man; <br />how dangerous the skies - to men and birds - <br />how soiled the air, if wings were in Man's span! <br /> <br />Suppose that every species made extinct <br />by Man - God's guardian of all things that live - <br />deprived us - as indeed it may - by dint <br />of mindlessness, of something God's mind gives? <br /> <br />I watch the spider, humble in my praise: <br />self-spinning tightrope walker; engineer; <br />the knower of all Nature's weathered ways <br />and bold explorer on the winds that veer: <br /> <br />Nature spares the spider Man 's wild mind; <br />should mind in Nature rest, God's there to find.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0379-species-sonnet-190/
