What will be counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve?

As there are only 12-hour signs on the clock to measure hours. therefore, the poet ask us to count till the clock measures those in a hope that we can remain calm and silent which will helps us in attaining a state of peace in which we will able to introspect and see and appreciate the benefits of harmonic- enticing- beautiful - exotic relationship that would exist between humans and nature.