How great is greatness? asks my questing soul: <br />scenting behind that quest, eternity; <br />that dark which, studied, lights the dazzling whole <br />and brings to finite thought, infinity; <br /> <br />as when great singers sing, all hearts can sing; <br />great dancers give us sense that all can dance; <br />great actors speak for all of us; we think <br />to know all painted greatness at one glance: <br /> <br />we know already, greatness' unfenced whole, <br />we know that boundless place, the human heart; <br />Creation is no secret to our soul; <br />all being sings its song in every part. <br /> <br />How glorious those sages who can see <br />in everything that lives, totality!<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0162-greatness/
