God's World

by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A cry of almost unbearable gratitude for the world's beauty — long have I known a glory in it all.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
    Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
    Thy mists, that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!
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Themes: birthday · gratitude · reflection