Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEEN IN A GLASS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE


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First Line: Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars
Last Line: Assume in nature's glass, in nature's eyes.
Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Trees


Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars
Is the presence that I cannot see
Otherwise than as house and stars and tree.

Tree, house and stars
Extend to infinity within themselves
Into the mystery of the world

Where whirl the wheels of power whose pulses beat
Out of nothing, out of night,
Leaves, stones and fires,

The living tree whose maypole dance
Of chromosome and nucleus
Traces the maze of boughs and leaves,

The standing house of stone that poured
In molten torrent when was hurled
Out of chaos this great world,

And suns whose kindling begins anew
Or ends the course that tree, house, world move through,

Upheld by being that I cannot know
In other form than stars and stones and trees
Assume in nature's glass, in nature's eyes.





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