Harold Monro

Here you will find the Poem The Rebellious Vine of poet Harold Monro

The Rebellious Vine

One day, the vine
That clomb on god?s own house
Cried, ?I will not 
grow

And, `I will 
not
grow,?
And, I 
will
not grow,?
And, 
`I
will not grow,?
So God leaned out his head, 
And said:

`You need 
not
Then the vine
fluttered its leaves, and cried to all the winds:
`Oh have I not permission from the Lord?
And may I not begin to cease to grow??
But that wise God had pondered on the vine
Before he made it.
And all the while it laboured not to grow,
It grew; it grew;
And all the time God knew.