Grain by Grain by Grain

 “It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert Service

 

A prolific writer and poet, Service – born Jan. 16, 1874 – published numerous collections of poetry during his lifetime, including Songs of a Sourdough or Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907), which went into ten printings its first year, Ballad of a Cheechako and Ballads of a Bohemian.  He also authored 2 autobiographies and 6 novels, several adapted to film. For Saturday’s Poem, here is Service’s,

 

                                                A Grain of Sand

 

If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
'Mid countless constellations cast
A million worlds may be,
With each a God to bless or blast
And steer to destiny.

Just think! A million gods or so
To guide each vital stream,
With over all to boss the show
A Deity supreme.
Such magnitudes oppress my mind;
From cosmic space it swings;
So ultimately glad to find
Relief in little things.

For look! Within my hollow hand,
While round the earth careens,
I hold a single grain of sand
And wonder what it means.
Ah! If I had the eyes to see,
And brain to understand,
I think Life's mystery might be
Solved in this grain of sand.

 

 

 

 

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