Simplicity

 What I seek far yet seldom find
Is large simplicity of mind
 In fellow men;
For I have sprouted from the sod,
Like Bobbie Burns, my earthly god,
 --From plough to pen.


So I refuse my brain to vex
With problems prosy and complex,
 Beyond my scope;
To me simplicity is peace,
So I persue it without cease,
 And growing hope.


"The world is too much with us," wrote
Wise Wordsworth, whom I love to quote,
 When rhymes are coy;
And simple is the world I see,
With bud and bloom and brook and tree
 To give me joy.


So blissfully I slip away
From brazen and dynamic day
 To dingle cool .
 .
 .

Now tell me friend, if in your eyes,
By being simple I am wise,--
 Or just a fool?

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