Excerpt from The Loves of Laos in Sonnets Sung
IF Why art thou were asked of trembling soul Fresh from the hand of soul-creative power ’twould frighten it to silence: so the Whole Created life existant to this hour Would hush its learned contentions and stand dumb Before its questioner. Who answer hath Must not alone look to the years to come Nor seek for answer in the beaten path The Past hath trod, nor where the Present strays. To answer is to know Who knoweth why The sun hath never lost one of its rays, Or how the pencilled light can paint the sky, Or why things are or only seem to be, Might answer, yet there would be mystery.
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