What Nature mirrors and reveals —
The purblind vision it unseals
To sight of awesome Presence holy,
That chastens sore ere He soothes and heals,—
The reign of law, with ethic rule
E'en in the breast of idle fool,
( As moon and stars are heavenly pictured
Within the breast of a noisome pool ) —
Herein is claim of Nature's worth.
Though I forget the forms of earth,
Of gilded cloud and circling planet,
I know His fire lives within their girth.