Poems of Purpose

<h2><SPAN name="page99"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE TRINITY</h2> <p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Much</span> may be done with the world we are in,<br/> Much with the race to better it;<br/> We can unfetter it,<br/> Free it from chains of the old traditions;<br/> Broaden its viewpoint of virtue and sin;<br/> Change its conditions<br/> Of labour and wealth;<br/> And open new roadways to knowledge and health.<br/> <i>Yet some things ever must stay as they are</i><br/> <i>While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star</i>.<br/> A man and a woman with love between,<br/> Loyal and tender and true and clean,<br/> Nothing better has been or can be<br/> Than just those three.</p> <p class="poetry">Woman may alter the first great plan.<br/> Daughters and sisters and mothers<br/> May stalk with their brothers<br/> Forth from their homes into noisy places<br/> Fit (and fit only) for masculine man.<br/> Marring their graces<br/> <SPAN name="page100"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>With conflict and strife<br/> To widen the outlook of all human life.<br/> <i>Yet some things ever must stay as they are</i><br/> <i>While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star</i>.<br/> A man and a woman with love that strengthens<br/> And gathers new force as its earth way lengthens;<br/> Nothing better by God is given<br/> This side of heaven.</p> <p class="poetry">Science may show us a wonderful vast<br/> Secret of life and of breeding it;<br/> Man by the heeding it<br/> Out of earth&rsquo;s chaos may bring a new order.<br/> Off with old systems, old laws may be cast.<br/> What now seems the border<br/> Of licence in creeds,<br/> May then be the centre of thoughts and of deeds.<br/> <i>Yet some things ever must stay as they are</i><br/> <i>While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star</i>.<br/> A man and a woman and love undefiled<br/> And the look of the two in the face of a child,&mdash;<br/> Oh, the joys of this world have their changing ways,<br/> But this joy stays.<br/> Nothing better on earth can be<br/> Than just those three.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />