Florence Churchill Casebeer - XVIII. The Astronomer lyrics

Perhaps unseeing through Mount Wilson's eye We look; beside us looms one that can see! Speechless, we leave the modern laboratory, Recalling, just a flash of truth, we sigh Confounded by the answer to our Why? No man can comprehend for certainty The workings of a soul to set life free, Because the soul is high, as heaven is high. Posterity lives in the Einstein mind, It traces out the maze of Michelson, It works within the brain of Millikan, And if we marvel, how its findings bind Our common soul,--each age has sought and won A power, unseen, that would lift up all men.