 The immoderate soils together represent the danger of humans " trying to be little gods on earth " , while the limestone landscape promises that life 's pleasures need not be incompatible with public responsibility and salvation . After seeming to dismiss the landscape as historically insignificant in these middle sections of the poem , Auden justifies it in theological terms at the end . In a world where " sins can be forgiven " and " bodies rise from the dead " , the limestone landscape makes " a further point : / The blessed will not care what angle they are regarded from / Having nothing to hide . " The poem concludes by envisioning a realm like that of the Kingdom of God in physical , not idealistic terms : 
