What is more large than knowledge and more sweet; <br />Knowledge of thoughts and deeds, of rights and wrongs, <br />Of passions and of beauties and of songs; <br />Knowledge of life; to feel its great heart beat <br />Through all the soul upon her crystal seat; <br />To see, to feel, and evermore to know; <br />To till the old world's wisdom till it grow <br />A garden for the wandering of our feet. <br /> <br />Oh for a life of leisure and broad hours, <br />To think and dream, to put away small things, <br />This world's perpetual leaguer of dull naughts; <br />To wander like the bee among the flowers <br />Till old age find us weary, feet and wings <br />Grown heavy with the gold of many thoughts.<br /><br />Archibald Lampman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/knowledge-28/
