A DAY OF SUNSHINE

Looking At Nature and Observing Oneself

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Note:

No clear borderline divides

philosophical poetry from esoteric

wisdom. In the ancient world, both

Eastern and Western nations used to record

and to memorize religious teachings in the form

of verses. At all times, good philosophical poems

seem to directly speak to one’s higher levels of

consciousness. As to the following poem, it should

be taken into consideration that the whole Nature is

seen as divine, in theosophy as in  Baruch Spinoza’s

philosophy and the mysticism of every religion.  In

this context, “god” is but the eternal universal law.

“A Day of Sunshine” is reproduced from “The Works

of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, The Wordsworth

Poetry Library, U.K., 1994, 886 pp., pp. 319-320.

(C. C. A.)

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 Heart-consciousness in human

beings is linked to the energy of the Sun

O gift of God! O perfect day:

Whereon shall no man work, but play;

Whereon it is enough for me,

Not to be doing, but to be!

Through every fibre of my brain,

Through every nerve, through every vein,

I feel the electric thrill, the touch

Of life, that seems almost too much.

I hear the wind among the trees

Playing celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent,

Like keys of some great instrument. [1]

And over me unrolls on high

The splendid scenery of the sky,

Where though a sapphire sea the sun

Sails like a golden galleon,

Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,

Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,

Whose steep sierra far uplifts

Its craggy summits white with drifts.

Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms

The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!

Blow, winds! and bend within my reach

The fiery blossoms of the peach!

O Life and Love! O happy throng

Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!

O heart of man! canst thou not be

Blithe as the air is, and as free?

NOTE:

[1] Referring to the music of the wind upon reeds, H. P. Blavatsky wrote to a Russian newspaper:  “…There are many such natural orchestras in India; they are well known to the Brahmanas who call this wind in the reeds vina-devas (the lute of the Gods).”  See “From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan”, H. P. Blavatsky, TPH, 1975-1983, p. 283. (C. C. A.)

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