General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems/The Cornfields

598286General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems — The Cornfields1916Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

THE CORNFIELDS

THE cornfields rise above mankind
Lifting white torches to the blue,
Each season not ashamed to be
Magnificently decked for you.

What right have you to call them yours,
And in brute lust of riches burn
Without some radiant penance wrought,
Some beautiful, devout return?