FROM RENASCENCE

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

          The world stands out on either side

          No wider than the heart is wide;

          Above the world is stretched the sky,--   

          No higher than the soul is high.

          The heart can push the sea and land

          Farther away on either hand;

          The soul can split the sky in two,

          And let the face of God shine through.

          But East and West will pinch the heart

          That cannot keep them pushed apart;

          And he whose soul is flat—the sky

          Will cave in on him by and by.