24 NATURE IN A CITY YARD 



the clouds above it. And this is not all 

 illusion, for the southing sun loses its heat- 

 rays, and the chemical light that comes 

 through the air is red. 



Looking skyward one is face to face 

 with eternity. How futile, yet inevitable, 

 to put the questions suggested to himself 

 and to unanswering space and time by that 

 vision ! He tries to think back to the time 

 in eternity when matter did not exist, and 

 concludes it always did exist. And he 

 wonders if the universe is evolution or 

 creation. And is order mind, or has mind 

 developed from order ? And in the future 

 suns burn out, only to have their ashes 

 swept up by comets, scouts and scavengers 

 of space, and hurled together with such 

 fury that they become gaseous with heat, 

 condense, reform into suns and planets, 

 and the drama goes on again, endlessly. 

 With a spectator ? Ah, useless to ask and 

 wonder. Truth is in a well, so deep she 

 cannot come to us, nor we descend to her. 

 Let us be content to love and admire, 

 create and maintain, live and improve. It 

 is all and the best we can do. 



