16 THE CHARMER. "Let not your heart be troubled," then He said, I go before you to prepare your place, I will return to take you with Me there." And since that hour the awful foe is charmed, MRS. HARRIET B. STOWE. THE VOICES OF NATURE. EARIED with the golden glare, With the noise of worldly things, Take us to Thy larger air, To the shadow of Thy wings! In the wild with Nature lonely, Listening for Thy message only. Sweeps aside, as vague or vain, Soul, a function of the brain ; The whole universe is less Than one atom-grain of thought; C 18 THE VOICES OF NATURE. Forms of man's own consciousness, Space and Time o'erwhelm him not Voice of Nature in the heart, Narrow through our science, though Here we only know in part, Give us faith in what we know ! To a fuller life aspiring, Satisfy the heart's desiring. Tell us of a force, behind Nature's force, supreme, alone: Tell us of a larger mind Than the partial power we own; Tell us of a Being wholly Wise and great and just and holy : Toning down the pride of mind To a wiser humbleness, Teach the limits of mankind, Weak to know and prompt to guess, THE VOICES OF NATURE. On the mighty shores that bound us Teach how, yet, what here we know Prophesies consummate day; How the little arc before us How the marr'd unequal scheme Or must somewhere be complete; He is. We meanwhile repair To the fields of larger air, To the shadow of His wings: Listening for His message only In the wild with Nature lonely. FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE. 19 |