Definition

What men can create, craft, design,

Becomes your art when you play 

Light and shadow on it.

I see this iron fence in rain;

Droplets running down each curve

Like the surfaces of country roads in spring.

I imagine it with whitest snow 

Along the top bar and the spaces of the lower edge

Filling the lower curves of each circle.

I know it in summer with hot sun

And shade of towering oak trees, 

Making shadows dance there to silent music.

A gift you give to the sons of man 

To let him create objects of beauty and usefulness

You made us like you in this way. 

You add the crown of change

To that men makes, builds, grows

You define beauty.