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“THE GREATER NEEDS THE LESS”
SONNET
The greater needs the less,—and so God needs
In deeper modes than we can understand
Each wave's soft kiss that leaps against the land,
Each rippling laugh of humblest river-reeds.
Creation's loneliest smallest sob he heeds:
The Eternal seeks each child's weak outstretched hand.
In this is God the vast, the pure, the grand,
That from star-founts the glow-worm's lamp he feeds.
In deeper modes than we can understand
Each wave's soft kiss that leaps against the land,
Each rippling laugh of humblest river-reeds.
Creation's loneliest smallest sob he heeds:
The Eternal seeks each child's weak outstretched hand.
In this is God the vast, the pure, the grand,
That from star-founts the glow-worm's lamp he feeds.
The tiniest golden flower is deathless part
Of God who moulded and who watches all
And holds the whole encircled in his heart:—
No sunlit wing can soar, no foot can crawl,
Without the safeguard of his eye that knows
Each tenderest petal of the world's each rose.
Of God who moulded and who watches all
And holds the whole encircled in his heart:—
No sunlit wing can soar, no foot can crawl,
Without the safeguard of his eye that knows
Each tenderest petal of the world's each rose.
Jan. 13, 1902.
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