Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow -- Good things come and bad things go. Try to sweep the clouds away, Try to speed the flowers of May, Hurry on the ocean's tide, Bid the mountains run and hide, This achieve, but no one can Haste the processes of man, Gather in and take control Of the mighty human soul, Bend its action to his will, Bid it hasten or lie still, Cleanse it from the smudge of wrong, Make it beautiful and strong, Cause the blessedness to come Of the fair millennium. He to whom a thousand years Circling vastly through the spheres Pass as flies a summer's day, He alone has valid sway, He alone is artisan Of the processes of man; Patient, patient, endless calm, Under His almighty arm Good things come and bad things go, Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988) by MARVIN BELL ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG by JAMES GALVIN HOW MY HEART SINKS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA A WINTER NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE |