Collected Poems (Robinson)/Discovery
DISCOVERY
We told of him as one who should have soaredAnd seen for us the devastating lightWhereof there is not either day or night,And shared with us the glamour of the WordThat fell once upon Amos to recordFor men at ease in Zion, when the sightOf ills obscured aggrieved him and the mightOf Hamath was a warning of the Lord.
Assured somehow that he would make us wise,Our pleasure was to wait; and our surpriseWas hard when we confessed the dry returnOf his regret. For we were still to learnThat earth has not a school where we may goFor wisdom, or for more than we may know.