From out of the void
From out of nothing did all creatures come
And Time and Chance provide their present forms ;
And all the things, both live and not, that home
Themselves in human mind, have fated norms.
So speak the seers from lofty chairs, new-found,
In places long renowned for more than schemes
That merely glance at Nature and the ground
Of Being ; seeing Earth for what she seems.
But from the spirit that belongs to Man,
Full-formed and of glad, enquiring mind,
A more reflective mood descends to scan
The World and find a truth of deeper kind.
How comes a thing from nothing? How come Chance,
Unaided, brings the World to great advance?
Jamie MacNab 2011
