Does the Ocean Sleep Alone - Poem by Jessie Miller
Does the Ocean Sleep Alone is a poem written from the perspective of the Ocean about her relationship to herself and the things around her. I think Nature has a great deal to tell us about Myth. Lewis spent significant portions of his books setting up landscapes for us, creating the world. The first views of Malacandra are incredible and Narnia stretches before one's mind like a blanket. When Lewis describes them they are so real to us. They reflect the Real and even in all their beauty are only shadows of the Joy that awaits us.
"At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. When human souls have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch." - The Weight of Glory
Myth lets us catch some of the light falling from a minute crack in the door.
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