WHAT KING SOLOMON KNEW

When I have admitted what had to be done was done,

I saw all at once in a moment of sanity?

That having attempted everything under the sun,

I’m pressed to exclaim that?all things are vanity,

My past being nothing but random profanity.

I realize now what was there from the earliest start:

That someone had put something timeless into my heart.

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I played Saint Augustine long before he was born

By plunging headlong into beautiful things created.

Light flashed and then shone; my blindness kept me forlorn;

Words called, a voice shouted; I did not hear, I was sated.

But breathing a fragrance by which I am fully inflated,

I pant with a hunger and thirst that have no surcease:

I’m touched by what’s timeless, and now I burn for its peace.