WAITING FOR NEWS
Waiting for news! What news? News from the darkness, how the seed Should bestir itself in greed, Clutch, consume, and break the soil, Then, with no moment more to lose, Stretch out, stretch up, and from that toil With leafy voices claim to be King in the forest dynasty.
Waiting for news! What news?
News from the unknown, where the worm Listens in its earthy form, And hungry for what all worms lack, Tunnels upward and pursues The would-be monarch, drags him back, Digests, Then leaves for further grace, A spiral in his royal place.
Waiting for news! What news?
News from the light, the known, where man Comes, as only human can, To dig with sharp and shining spade
How he likes, and where he choose
In the wormy forest glade.
Waiting for news of mankind's will.
Waiting for news—but waiting still!
RICHARD CHURCH.
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