Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс)

Knowledge

Would you believe in Presences Unseen--
    In life beyond this earthly life? BE STILL:
Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screen
    Of silence at the portal of your will.
Relax, and let the world go by unheard.
And seal your lips with some all-sacred word.

Breathe 'God,' in any tongue--it means the same;
    LOVE ABSOLUTE: Think, feel, absorb the thought;
Shut out all else; until a subtle flame
    (A spark from God's creative centre caught)
Shall permeate your being, and shall glow,
Increasing in its splendour, till, YOU KNOW.

Not in a moment, or an hour, or day
    The knowledge comes; the power is far too great,
To win in any desultory way.
    No soul is worthy till it learns to wait.
Day after day be patient, then, oh, soul;
Month after month--till, lo! the goal! the goal! 

1. The Call (All wantonly in hours of joy)
2. Behold the Earth
3. The Birth of the Orchid
4. The Black Charger
5. In England

Philip Bailey (Филип Бэйли) Knowledge ("THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man")

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