Mary Spain - The Unknown Factor

I can accept, because I'm told it's true <br />And observation prompts me to agree, <br />That what I'm standing on so trustingly - <br />This solid earth, this globe on which I grew <br />Whose complex, multi-featured face I view <br />As home - is circling, spinning endlessly <br />Around the sun.. What's more, it logically <br />Can be perceived that other planets do <br />The same. But telescopes can't show who wrote <br />The music for this stately, stellar dance; <br />Nor find the wisdom that controls each note <br />And scored the moonlight that it might enhance <br />The darkened earth. What steers each cosmic boat <br />Through boundless space? The hand of God - or chance?<br /><br />Mary Spain<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-unknown-factor/