Poem - Why Do We look for Beauty

Why do we look for beauty where sweetest waters flow

Where watercress and lilies white their tender seedlings sow?

Why seek we after loveliness midst fragrant meadows green?

The grace there is ephemeral, a fair but fleeting dream

Why seek we to prolong the days of sunshine warmth and spring

And strive the lark to thus compel forevermore to sing?

Why tarry we where pleasantness continually abides

And never-changing Summer bloom surrounds us on all sides?

Is not the heaviest show’r of rain more beautiful a sight?

For from its tears the glorious rainbow spreads her wings of light

And are not Winter’s barren trees far lovelier than the green?

Upon their hardened boughs emerge the blossoms of the spring

The fairest of earth’s daughters is the branch that bears the thorn

For from her twisted gnarled hands the reddest rose is born

Why seek we to from trials flee, with peace to self surround?

In heart alone that pain has known can purest love be found