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. I Didn’t Think
2. A Bachelor to a Married Flirt
3. The Cherub Year
4. Artist and Man
5. Babyland

Aline Kilmer (Алина Килмер) Knowledge ("SOME learn it in their youth")

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