As butterflies with beauty grace the air, <br />so love cannot be lazy in its love; <br />true love brings lovely energies to bear; <br />love's actions grace the true contemplative. <br /> <br />devoted action is the path we tread <br />when stirred at first by love of love's first cause; <br />to purge our souls of that we wish us rid; <br />such tasks may grace our caterpillar days. <br /> <br />humility - which is to know pure self, <br />seen clearly as the light of bad and good - <br />brings contemplation's share in godly wealth; <br />those shining works which are love's neighbourhood; <br /> <br />then we God's goodness, truth and beauty share; <br />as butterflies with beauty grace the air.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0175-love-s-butterfly/
