Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

By WILBVR D. NESBIT

LAWS

The law that swings the stars through, space And brings each tp tta wonted place. That law brings with a spring day** breath Green on hills gray with wintry death; It breaks the leaves out on the tree, It-'ruWs the lives of you and me; Man making laws is never done— God holds his universe with one. The law that sets the suns ablaze Divides our marching nights and <laya; It drives the comets out and far Beyond the last lone blinking star; It forms the daisy by the brook, The dancing shadow in the nook. Man makes his own laws but to brnah The one law not all time may shake. The law that heaves the rolling tide Across the sea from sl<)o to side. The law that gives faint worlds that* glow Shapes every little flake of snow And with unfailing rule, and just, Molds marvels In the grains of dust— One law has stood unchanged glway; Man makes his laws anew each day. The law that flings a shaft of light Adown the endless miles of night From some high world which seems to us But a fuint orb all tremulous— That law shapes roses Into bloom To scent the breeze with their perfumo. Anil drapes the clouds o’er frowning heights— Man/cannot count the laws he write*. Through all the days and all the year%. Through all our smiles and Jill our tear*. Through all that Is atul that shall be. The one law shall remain the key, A changeless, endless, simple rule M’herein the scholar or the fool May see the great and primal Causo— But man still makes a-many laws.