The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Holy of…

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'Elder father, though thine eyes / Shine with hoary mysteries, / Canst thou tell what in the heart / Of a cowslip blossom lies?

'Smaller than all lives that be, / Secret as the deepest sea, / Stands a little house of seeds, / Like an elfin's granary,

'Speller of the stones and weeds, / Skilled in Nature's crafts and creeds, / Tell me what is in the heart / Of the smallest of the seeds.'

'God Almighty, and with Him / Cherubim and Seraphim, / Filling all eternity -- / Adonai Elohim. '

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