Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
VI. Human ExperienceThe Seed Growing Secretly
Henry Vaughan (16211695)D
Tempests and winds and winter nights!
Vex not, that but One sees thee grow;
That One made all these lesser lights.
Within itself, an outward test?
Who breaks his glass, to take more light,
Makes way for storms into his rest.
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, bear fruit, earn life, and watch
Till the white-winged reapers come!