J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

Published february 17, 2015 16:17

In paradise perchance the eye may stray
from gazing upon everlasting day
to see the day illumined, and renew
from mirrored truth the likeness of the true.
Then looking on the blessed land' twill see
that all is as it is, and yet made free:
salvation changes not, nor yet destroys,
garden nor gardener, children nor their toys.
Evil it will not see, for evil lies
not in God's picture but in crooked eyes,
not in the source but in malicious choice,
and not in sound but in the tuneless voice.