Thought for the Week: Beauty and the predator

Derek Guiton reflects a question posed by William Blake

by Derek Guiton 10th August 2018

What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Whatever answer William Blake might have given to this question (he doesn’t actually provide one), posed in the last verse of his poem ‘The Tyger’, the answer many would give today is natural selection. In Meeting for Worship recently someone ministered on the subject of house martins: how wonderful the symmetry, beauty and energy of their flight!