Sting - The Lowest Trees Have Tops

Funny how you can listen to a song for months and not hear a beautiful line of words.

"the firmest faith is in the fewest words"

from the song The Lowest Trees Have Tops or the other title which I like better, A Silent Love(Words by Sir Edward Dyer, music by John Dowland).

THE lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little spark his heat;
The slender hairs cast shadows, though but small,
And bees have stings, although they be not great;
Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs;
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

Where waters smoothest run, there deepest are the fords,
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is found in fewest words,
The turtles do not sing, and yet they love;
True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Ive been pondering these words over the weekend.

Thinking of times when solid faith had no words in my life

1. When I first believed

2. When I have loved people, others said I had no right to love

3. When I knew I was going to be the one my mother would leave this world with

4. Something big and good is going to happen by the time I am 50. I don't know what, I just know.