i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
"i thank You God for most this amazing" from
COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings,
Edited by George J. Firmage, are used with the
permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Copyright © 1950, (c) 1978, 1991 by the
Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright
(c) 1979 by George James Firmage.