We often think people shallow, think them incapable of anything serious
or profound, because their work is humdrum and their speech trivial.
Such a judgment is unfair, since that part of our own life which shows
itself to others is superficial likewise, though we are conscious that
within us is much that it does not reveal.
I think about God.
Yet I talk of small matters.
Now isn't it odd
How my idle tongue chatters!
Of quarrelsome neighbors,
Fine weather and rain,
Indifferent labors,
Indifferent pain,
Some trivial style
Fashion shifts with a nod.
And yet all the while
I am thinking of God.
_Gamaliel Bradford._