The angry weak,
The gentle strong;
The haughty 'right',
The humble 'wrong';
The anxious brave,
The stalwart mild;
The venging just,
The reconciled;
The stingy rich,
The gen'rous poor;
The healthy given to complaint,
The patient ill without a cure;
The celebrated ignorant,
The, though unlettered, wise;
The quick that leave much to desire,
The slow that well surprise;
There's beauty that sets hearts to sway,
And beauty that's sublime;
The first, the second does outweigh,
As substance outweighs rhyme.
The meal that whets the appetite,
The grain that satisfies,
Not more that's less, but less that's more:
Therein the secret lies.
The unforgiving privileged,
The rancor-less deprived;
All deck the rich brocade of life
That Will Divine contrived;
A Will to which all things amount,
Infinitely beyond account,
That fashions, shapes,
Evolves, and makes,
Exalts, bestows,
That gives,and takes,
Provides, sustains
And oft forgives,
That never dies,
And ever lives,
That expedites,
And brings delay,
Restricts, constrains,
Then shows the way,
Encompassing the bounds of time,
And fusing substance into rhyme,
Determines all,
All things directs,
That causes death,
And resurrects,
Like rains upon
The springtime bed,
Give life unto
The waiting dead.
