• From “Anima Mundi”
                                GOD is good,
    And flight is destined for the callow wing,
    And the high appetite implies the food,
    And souls most reach the level whence they spring;
    O Life of very life! set free our powers,
    Hasten the travail of the yearning hours.

    Thou, to whom old Philosophy bent low,
    To the wise...

  • “there is no God,” the foolish saith,
      But none, “There is no sorrow”;
    And nature oft the cry of faith
      In bitter need will borrow:
    Eyes which the preacher could not school,
      By wayside graves are raised;
    And lips say, “God be pitiful,”
      Who ne’er said, “God be praised.”
                            Be pitiful, O God!

    The...