WE trust and fear, we question and believe, <br />From life's dark threads a trembling faith to weave, <br />Frail as the web that misty night has spun, <br />Whose dew-gemmed awnings glitter in the sun. <br />While the calm centuries spell their lessons out, <br />Each truth we conquer spreads the realm of doubt; <br />When Sinai's summit was Jehovah's throne, <br />The chosen Prophet knew his voice alone; <br />When Pilate's hall that awful question heard, <br />The Heavenly Captive answered not a word. <br /> <br />Eternal Truth! beyond our hopes and fears <br />Sweep the vast orbits of thy myriad spheres! <br />From age to age, while History carves sublime <br />On her waste rock the flaming curves of time, <br />How the wild swayings of our planet show <br />That worlds unseen surround the world we know.<br /><br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-limitations/
