Beyond Time’s Spiral Wall
As far as Hubble’s sharp, unblinking eyes can see –
Through plasmic time and space towards eternity –
Unending crowds of stars and galaxies appear,
(With their attendant cloudy nebulæ), as clear
As if they had ignited in quite recent days;
Yet at such distances as predicate their blaze
Must be more ancient than reason’s best estimate.
Their complex natures confound theorists who state
The cosmic age has limits which can be divined
Through mathematic formulæ cast in the mind
By logic’s clever arts.
Hubble, it seems, makes plain
The universe forever trades in loss and gain:
Recycling, in its changeful constancy, the fate of all
That was or is, to some new state beyond Time’s spiral wall.
