Northern Star
How insignificant you seem,
Pale Northern Star!.
And yet the constellations pace
Their patterned gait
Around your chosen dwelling-place
As though they deem
You Monarch of their shining State!.
Is it your constancy that draws
Them from afar,
Or something more significant
Obscured from us?.
Are you the secret focal-point
Of Nature’s laws
Which bind the total universe?.
One day your mysteries may be
Revealed to our
Inquisitively probing minds.
When that day’s dawn
Comes, shall we solve life’s meaning?. Find
Our destiny?.
Or shall we always be forlorn?.
