Classic Poem

structure,miraculous challenge,devout am

upward deep most invincible unthing
— stern sexual timelessness,outtowering
this noisy impotence of not and same

answer,beginning,ecstasy,to dare:
prouder than all mountains,more than all
oceans various.
and while everywhere
beneath thee and about thyself a small
hoping insect,humanity, achieves
(moult beyond difficult moult)amazing doom
who standest as thou hast stood and thou shalt stand.

Nor any dusk but kneelingly believes
thy secret and each morning stoops to blend

her star with what huge merciful forms presume