(a meditation by Thomas Traherne)

Not all the crowns; not all the heaps of gold
On earth; not all
the tales that can be told,
Will satisfaction yield to me:
Nor
tree,
Nor shade, nor sun, nor Eden, be
A joy; nor gems in
gold
(be ‘t pearl or precious stone),
nor spring, nor
flowers,
Answer my craving powers,
Nor anything that eyes
behold.

from "Insatiableness"
by Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)