by Malcolm Guite
(a 'found' sonnet taken from The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis who died this day in 1963)Imagine a new natural philosophy;
I hardly know what I am asking for;
Far-off echoes, that primeval sense,
With blood and sap, Man’s pre-historic piety,
Continually conscious and continually…
Alive, alive and growing like a tree
And trees as dryads, or as beautiful,
The bleeding trees in Virgil and in Spenser
The tree of knowledge and the tree of life
Growing together, that great ritual
Pattern of nature, beauties branching out
The cosmic order, ceremonial,
Regenerate science, seeing from within…
To participate is to be truly human.
(a 'found' sonnet taken from The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis who died this day in 1963)Imagine a new natural philosophy;
I hardly know what I am asking for;
Far-off echoes, that primeval sense,
With blood and sap, Man’s pre-historic piety,
Continually conscious and continually…
Alive, alive and growing like a tree
And trees as dryads, or as beautiful,
The bleeding trees in Virgil and in Spenser
The tree of knowledge and the tree of life
Growing together, that great ritual
Pattern of nature, beauties branching out
The cosmic order, ceremonial,
Regenerate science, seeing from within…
To participate is to be truly human.
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I ran into this one on facebook today. I didn't realize that today is the day of C.S. Lewis' death. Always thankful for C.S. Lewis' life and work which have encouraged me so often that they've just become a part of the unconscious fabric of my thought in many ways. In addition, if you're not aware of poet, priest, and rock-and-roller Malcolm Guite check out his blog here: http://www.malcolmguite.wordpress.com
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