Arthur Hugh Clough - Seven Sonnets II lyrics

That there are better things within the womb Of Nature than to our unworthy view She grants for a possession, may be true: The cycle of the birthplace and the tomb Fulfils at least the order and the doom Of her, that has not ordinance to do More than to withdraw and to renew, To show one moment and the next resume: The law that we return from whence we came May for the flowers, beasts, and most men remain; If for ourselves, we [ask] not nor complain: But for a being that demands the name We highest deem--a Person and a Soul It troubles us if this should be the whole.