"What Philosopher" by Vicki Hearne

What philosopher denies
The moods of the wind and stones?

What philosopher has learned
To fear the silent oak trees?

What philosopher can with
The fullest joy shiver when

The terrier goes for sticks?
As for the philosopher,

As for the heart of the

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world.
So long as ideas edge

Their way between what is good
And so extreme and happy

And what is blackest evil
And so extreme and happy

Some philosopher will learn
To deny the wind and stones

Or to accept them into
The golden truth of the world.
- Vicki Hearne