Fragmentary Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue	
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,	
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,	
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?	
 
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet) —
Though some savants make earth include the sky;	
And blue so far above us comes so high,	
It only gives our wish for blue a whet

- Robert Frost