Rude vessel guarding a more precious wine.
“All prayer is childlike—falls as short of Him
The wisdom of the wisest Seraphim,
As the child’s small conceit of heavenly things;
A line to sound his depths no creature brings.
Before the Infinite, the One, the All,
Must every difference disappear and fall,
There is no wise nor simple, great nor small.
For him the little clod of common earth
Has to the diamond no inferior worth;