OK, Knowledge Is All About

​Ok, knowledge is all about
Getting along with the Pyrenees
If you’re a cloud, to learn
The cross-winds, to slip with ease

Along the northern slope,
But more, to breathe within
The human breath, linking us
To gneiss and jessamine,

So that our eyes draw light
From river ripples’ glint,
Our minds from droplet-hanging
Spider webs among the spearmint, 

So that we are complete.
And that is our thirst,
Our thirst to know
The universe, to be immersed

In a burst of sunlight
That sparkles on the grass
In air that swathes the earth
With glimpses of moon and brass,

Beyond the finest fine,
And the breath within our breath
Demands that higher land
Where death has met its death,

And that is the secret service
Of those whose hearts are right,
Who seek with love and candles
For knowledge with delight.