Wordsworth, the great English poet, had earlier said in one of his Sonnets:
The world’s too much with us,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.
Little do we see in Nature that is our’s.
It is the same idea which poet W.H.Davies has expressed in the above noted couplet. God has created the whole world of Nature for us; there is so much of charm, so much of beauty; so much to enjoy and at the same time so much to sit and contemplate over these beauties and these bounties of nature. But the man of today, always in haste, always in a hurry to rush on to office or to his workplace, keen to earn more, has hardly any time to enjoy boundless beauties of Nature which lie bare before him. Life in the world is ruffled; it is all full of care and concern—to do this, to do that and the poet laments, ‘we have no time to stand and stare’. And rightly does he lament that coming closer to nature, watching its beauty gives a soothing balm to the otherwise battered being of a man. Not only that ‘to stand and stare, at the store of beauties laid bare before us leads the mind to the realms of the infinite’—who has created all this? Where from has so much of beauty come? Who is the creator? Not of course man—then who? The mind soars high into the higher realms of thought and man’s soul feels enlightened and invigorated in solving the mysteries of the universe. While the sun, the moon, the sky, the stars have ever been there and shall ever be there, they are eternal and everlasting. We, of this world, run after the shadow and lose sight of the substance and life which is short, ends in this mad pursuit.
Vocabulary
Ruffled—disturbed
Invigorated—to make vigorous