I wake to sleep,
and take my waking slow;
I feel my fate
in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going
where I have to go.
We think
by feeling;
what is there
to know?
God bless the ground,
I shall
walk softly there,
and learn
by going where I have to go.
Light takes the trees,
but who can tell us how?
from "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke