So What If The Facts Have Marshalled Themselves Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

so what if the facts have marshalled themselves against

beauty, truth and goodness prevailing

let fact float away

and let clouds rule the day;

the shadows of the imperilled orchards.

all seems transient

yet what men die for

but it isn't transient in the least

what men have striven to say

in a dire hour

and not for peacock display

so ring the hours still

though cathedrals vanish into God;

poised on the cusp

of obliterating snows

though words

in all that melts may go

even so though not a trace remain on earth

the heart recalls them in a second birth

reciting them in heavenly verse.

mary angela douglas 26 july 2023