Erotica/I Called in Vain

by Arthur Clark Kennedy

I Called in Vain

I called in vain unto the night,
To shew me heaven and heaven's God;
I asked the sea who ruled her might
   As with a rod.

I asked of all the winds the same,
If they too served this unknown God,
And from his footstool went and came,
   Swayed by his nod.

I sought an answer from a star,
But it hung in the voiceless void,
And on my quest I wandered far
   Unsatisfied.

Until I whispered to the ground,
"O, Mother Earth, canst thou not prove
That such exist?" and then I found
My heaven, your arms; my God, your love!