Sonnets and Other Poems Chiefly Religious by Joseph John Murphy |
 |
ON READING HERBERT SPENCER'S
“PSYCHOLOGY.”
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 | Sonnets and Other Poems Chiefly Religious |  |
15
ON READING HERBERT SPENCER'S “PSYCHOLOGY.”
I thank thee, sage and seer, that thou hast broughtThe widely wandering intellect of man
Back to where first its childhood's walks began;
Where the reality we long have sought
Through clouds and mists and vapours phantom-fraught
Is found upon the firm familiar earth,
Where flowers are bright and children make their mirth,
And mines of knowledge ask but to be wrought.
Again we see “the light of common day”
As when it shone upon our childish way,
Before our souls to wander had been taught.
We see the truths that are most widely true,
Old as the ages, as the morning new,
Revealed in things and imaged back in thought.
| Sonnets and Other Poems Chiefly Religious | |