Poetic Divination | Wisdom

“Wisdom”

by Siegfried Sassoon

When Wisdom tells me that the world?s a speck

Lost on the shoreless blue of God?s To-Day…

I smile, and think, ?For every man his way:

The world?s my ship, and I?m alone on deck!?

And when he tells me that the world?s a spark

Lit in the whistling gloom of God?s To-Night…

I look within me to the edge of dark,

And dream, ?The world?s my field, and I?m the lark,

Alone with upward song, alone with light!?