Saint Augustine
by
Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916)
Question the beauty of the
earth,
the beauty of the sea,
the beauty of the wide air
around you,
the beauty of the sky;
question the order of the
stars,
the sun whose brightness
lights the day,
the moon whose splendour
softens the gloom of night;
question the living creatures
that move in the waters,
that roam upon the earth,
that fly through the air;
the sirit that lies hidden,
the matter that is manifest;
the visible things that
are ruled,
the invisible that rule
them,
question all these.
They will answer you:
'Behold and see, we are
beautiful.'
Who made tghese beautiful
changing things,
if not One who is beautiful
and changeth not? |
Tully Mountain, Connemara,
County Galway, Ireland
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