Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | II. Light: Day: Night | | “In the wide awe and wisdom of the night” | | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | IN the wide awe and wisdom of the night | |
| I saw the round world rolling on its way, | |
| Beyond significance of depth or height, | |
| Beyond the interchange of dark and day. | |
| I marked the march to which is set no pause, | 5 |
| And that stupendous orbit, round whose rim | |
| The great sphere sweeps, obedient unto laws | |
| That utter the eternal thought of Him. | |
| I compassed time, outstripped the starry speed, | |
| And in my still Soul apprehended space, | 10 |
| Till weighing laws which these but blindly heed, | |
| At last I came before Him face to face,— | |
| And knew the Universe of no such span | |
| As the august infinitude of man. | | | | |
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