Only Be Still by Ella Wheeler Wilcox — Read

‘Only be still, and in the silence grow,' / If thou art seeking what the gods bestow. / This is the simple, safe, and certain way / That leads to knowledge for which all men pray / Of higher laws to govern things below.

But in our restless discontent we go / With noisy importuning day on day- / Drowning the inner voice that strives to say / ‘Only be still, and in the silence grow.'

We doubt, we cavil, and we talk of woe- / We delve in books, and waste our forces so; / We cling to creeds that were not meant to stay, / And close our ears to Truth's immortal lay. / Oh wouldst thou see, and understand, and know? / ‘Only be still, and in the silence grow. '