the fire already lighted

one of my favorite poems

another of my themes is that all things (including the inanimate ones) serve God whether knowingly or willingly or not. with some people it seems to be over their resentful denial and railing defiance, but believing as i do i try to be as willing and knowing as i can. with my limited vision i think the willing part more important - ("there is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path"). so i like this poem that i found, though not-so-happily as part of a memorial. i am typing it like it was engraved, because that seemed to add to its effect for me:


WE SAW NOT CLEARLY NOR VNDERSTOOD
BVT YIELDING OVRSELVES TO THE MASTERHAND
EACH IN HIS PART AS BEST HE COVLD
WE PLAYED IT THROVGH AS THE AVTHOR PLANNED

--ALAN SEEGER

posted by amichael @ 21:12