Through the Dark Sod as Education

Through the Dark Sod as Education - meaning Summary

Transformation Through Simple Faith

The poem portrays a lily moving through dark soil without fear, its faith steady despite subterranean difficulty. Emerging into a meadow, it rings a ‘‘Beryl Bell’’ of joy and leaves behind the ‘‘mold-life’’ of underground struggle. The image suggests growth and learning as a quiet, instinctive passage from constrained beginnings into free, ecstatic flourishing, framed as an education achieved through endurance rather than deliberate instruction.