[O sweet spontaneous] BY E. E. CUMMINGS O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting              fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy         beauty      how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods          (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover              thou answerest them only with                               spring)