The Ballad of St. Barbara and other verses/The Mystery
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THE MYSTERY
If sunset clouds could grow on treesIt would but match the may in flower;And skies be underneath the seasNo topsyturvier than a shower.
If mountains rose on wings to wanderThey were no wilder than a cloud;Yet all my praise is mean as slander,Mean as these mean words spoken aloud.
And never more than now I knowThat man's first heaven is far behind;Unless the blazing seraph's blowHas left him in the garden blind.
Witness, O Sun that blinds our eyes,Unthinkable and unthankable King,That though all other wonder diesI wonder at not wondering.