The Poetry Corner

Fulfillment

By Madison Julius Cawein

Yes, there are some who may look on these Essential peoples of the earth and air That have the stars and flowers in their care And all their soul-suggestive secrecies: Heart-intimates and comrades of the trees, Who from them learn, what no known schools declare, God's knowledge; and from winds, that discourse there, God's gospel of diviner mysteries: To whom the waters shall divulge a word Of fuller faith; the sunset and the dawn Preach sermons more inspired even than The tongues of Penticost; as, distant heard In forms of change, through Nature upward drawn, God doth address th' immortal soul of Man.