Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">ADVICE TO A BUTTER-CUP</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Undistinguished butter-cup</div> <div class="verse">Lost among myriads of others,</div> <div class="verse">To the red ant eyeing you</div> <div class="verse">You are giant stillness.</div> <div class="verse">He pauses on the boulder of a clod,</div> <div class="verse">Baffled by your nearness to the sky.</div> <div class="verse">But to the black loam at your feet</div> <div class="verse">You are the atom of a pent-up dream.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Undistinguished butter-cup,</div> <div class="verse">Take your little breath of contemplation,</div> <div class="verse">Undisturbed by haughty tricks of space.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />