My period had come for prayer,

My period had come for prayer,
No other art would do,
My tactics missed a rudiment;
Creator, was it you?

God grows above, so those who pray
Horizons must ascend,
And so I stood upon the North
To reach this curious Friend.

His house was not; no sign had He
By chimney nor by door,—
Could I infer His residence?
Wide prairies of the air

Unbroken by a settler,
Were all that I could see;
Infinitude, hadst Thou no face
That I might look at Thee?

The silence condescended,
The Heavens paused for me,
But awed beyond my errand
I worshiped—did not pray!