to see. ( two poems for perspective)

Walt Whitman

(from To See God)

Why should I wish to see God better than this day?

I see something of God each hour of the twenty four, 

and each moment then,

In the faces of men and women I see God 

and in my own face in the glass,

I see letters from God dropped in the street, 

and every one is signed by God's name.

David

(from Psalm 139)

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

You understand my thoughts from afar.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,

And are intimately aquainted with all my ways.

Even before there is a word on my tongue,

Behold, O Lord, you know it all.

You enclosed me behind and before,

And laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is too high, I cannot attain to it...

For you did form my inward parts;

You did weave me in my mothers womb.

I will give thanks to You,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Wonderful are Your works,

And my soul knows it very well...

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;

And in Your book they were all written,

The days that were ordained for me,

When as yet there was not one of them.