Poems (Jackson)/Vision
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Y subtile secrets of discovered law
Men well have measured the horizon's round,
Kept record of the speed of light and sound,
Have close defined by reasoning without flaw
The utmost human vision ever saw
Unaided, and have arrant sought and found
Devices countless to extend its bound.
Bootless their secrets all! My eyes but stray
To eastward, and majestic, bright, arise
Peaks of a range which three days distant lie buts!
And of the faces, too, that light my day
Most clear, one is a continent away,
The other shines above the farthest skies!
VISION.
Y subtile secrets of discovered lawMen well have measured the horizon's round,
Kept record of the speed of light and sound,
Have close defined by reasoning without flaw
The utmost human vision ever saw
Unaided, and have arrant sought and found
Devices countless to extend its bound.
Bootless their secrets all! My eyes but stray
To eastward, and majestic, bright, arise
Peaks of a range which three days distant lie buts!
And of the faces, too, that light my day
Most clear, one is a continent away,
The other shines above the farthest skies!