Earth-bound hearts

Vain are the ways
Of human cries.
Strange are the moulds
Of earthly hopes.
Queer is the dream
Of climbing skies.
In earth-bound hearts
Divinity gropes.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 1, No.11, 27 June 1966, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y, 1966