Love shuns the sage, the child it crowns, The rain comes when the wind calls; Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain Flies gayly forth and sings in sight. • Hearken once more! I will tell thee the mundane lore. From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds. Once slept the world an egg of stone, And pulse, and sound, and light was none; And God said, "Throb !" and there was motion And the vast mass became vast ocean. Onward and on, the eternal Pan, Who layeth the world's incessant plan, But forever doth escape, Like wave or flame, into new forms He is free and libertine, Pouring of his power the wine The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles. As he giveth to all to drink, Thus or thus they are and think. The third adds heat's indulgent spark; The fourth gives light which eats the dark; Into the fifth himself he flings, And conscious Law is King of kings.' Or the stars of eternity? Alike to him the better, the worse, The glowing angel, the outcast corse. He is the sparkle of the spar; He is the heart of every creature; Than all it holds more deep, more high.' MONADNOC THOUSAND minstrels woke within me, Up! If thou knew'st who calls To twilight parks of beech and pine, Above the ploughman's highest line, O'erlooks the surging landscape's swell! Let not unto the stones the Day Her lily and rose, her sea and land display. Read the celestial sign! Lo! the south answers to the north; A greater spirit bids thee forth Than the gray dreams which thee detain. Mark how the climbing Oreads Beckon thee to their arcades; Youth, for a moment free as they, Take the bounty of thy birth, Taste the lordship of the earth.' Assured that he who made the claim, Was not to be gainsaid. Ere yet the summoning voice was still, From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed Like ample banner flung abroad To all the dwellers in the plains Round about, a hundred miles, With salutation to the sea and to the bordering isles. In his own loom's garment dressed, By his proper bounty blessed, Fast abides this constant giver, Pillar which God aloft had set |