I'm here reporting from the dorm room of one Devika Shankar. (Yay! hehehe) Well, she was showing me poems that she likes and it made me think of this poem I found in a random novel once. So, I looked it up online and, lo and behold, there were stanzas I'd never seen!!! Anyway, here is the poem (it's one of my favorites). ^_^

The Great Minimum
by G.K. Chesterton

It is something to have wept as we have wept,
It is something to have done as we have done,
It is something to have watched when all men slept,
And seen the stars which never see the sun.

It is something to have smelt the mystic rose,
Although it break and leave the thorny rods,
It is something to have hungered once as those
Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods.

To have seen you and your unforgotten face,
Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray,
Pure as white lilies in a watery space,
It were something, though you went from me today.

To have known the things that from the weak are furled,
Perilous ancient passions, strange and high;
It is something to be wiser than the world,
It is something to be older than the sky.

In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts,
And fatted lives that of their sweetness tire,
In a world of flying loves and fading lusts,
It is something to be sure of a desire.

Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard;
Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen:
Let thunder break on man and beast and bird
And the lightning. It is something to have been.

*sigh* Isn't that WONDERful???? And the best part is, it really reflects the way I've been feeling lately. (That's a good thing. :p) I mean, I really have been thinking that way for the last few days. (Well, not the parts about forgotten faces, etc. But the basic idea.) Okay, Devi wants her computer back now. ^_^
*muah*!!!!!!!!!