Design
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.
heal-all: a wildflower, usually blue or violet but ocassionally white,
found blooming along roadsides in the summer. It was once supposed to have
healing qualities, hence its name. (from _Perrine's Sound and Sense_)
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