the excesses of god

Is it not by his high superfluousness we know

Our God? For to equal a need

Is natural, animal, mineral:  but to fling

Rainbows over the rain

And beauty above the moon and secret rainbows

On the domes of deep sea-shells,

And make the necessary embrace of breeding

Beautiful also as fire,

Not even the weeds to multiply without blossom

Nor the birds without music:

There is the great humaneness at the heart of things,

The extravagant kindness, the fountain

Humanity can understand, and would flow likewise

If power and desire were perch-mates.

~ Robinson Jeffers

from The Wild God of the World