Do you wish to know what is your 'soul', <br />in all its glory, and its whole estate? <br />To know if it knows but a part, or All? <br />Its birth; its growth, its life - or lives; its fate? <br /> <br />Is it the watcher, even of itself? <br />Is it its own revealer, beyond words? <br />Can wise men tell us its true health and wealth? <br />If not, can we be sure that it exists? <br /> <br />For lack of witness to the soul's true bounds, <br />then, witness all the wonders of the world <br />of nature, beauty, law: then, what responds <br />in our self's mirror, is soul's map unfurled: <br /> <br />unbounded witness to its Maker; masked, <br />until for glorious proof of this it's asked!<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0244the-soul-s-mirror/
