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Eternities – G. K. Chesterton

I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.

Well hath He spoken: “Swear not by thy head.

Thou knowest not the hairs,”though He, we read

Writes that wild number in

His own strange book.

I cannot count the sands or search the seas,

Death cometh, and I leave so much untrodden.

Grant my immortal aureole,

O my God,

And I will name the leaves upon the trees,

In heaven I shall stand on gold and glass,

Still brooding earth’s arithmetic to spell;

Or see the fading of the fires of hell Ere I have thanked my God for all the grass.