FROM THE WANDERERS

Fair Science, please, present us astral keys

With which from this empowered speck in space

We may unlock the vaulted mysteries

To trace the trillioned miles to that far place

Unshackled, freed from the  long-riddled curse]

We might invade truth’s flaming fields again,

To run the realms of reason and rehearse

The tantalizing questions that pursued

Us  down the dim, dark aisles of time; to dwell

Content within God’s star-fired constant mood;

With childlike joy, to tell and overtell

How circling back from their long cosmic roam

The children of Adam and Eve at last came home.