Wonders

Here are a thousand wonders; ships of steel
That speed beyond the seas; and marvellous craft
That challenge airy oceans; here are words
From half the world away, heard clear and loud;
Here are bright lights that flash as dusk, to make
Night's terror fade, and here great buildings tall.
Here is fair art, proud science, here the plan
Of nature turned to profit; here is Man!
And yet—
The smallest star that shivers out at even,
And trembles in the vast half-hesitant,
A tiny silver gleam against the blue
Infinity of space where echoes die
And no winds ever blow; a scintillant spark
Shot from the dreaming of a Deity—
Is this not lovelier and stranger far
Than all the miracles of science are?

E. F.