Saxifrage.

By Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The wide, wide sky was a crystal clear,

A great blue dome that quivered near.

And oh, the white-flowered miracle grown

Out of the broad gray breast of a stone!

Little plant, did you guess that when I heard

You whisper your one sweet rune-telling word,

Straight into the crystal I could see,

And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me?