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It whispers hope; it breathes the secret pledge
Of preservation, when earth's kingdoms fall.'

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Hail scene of beauty! scene of sabbath calm! Thou greenest earth, thou blue and boundless heaven! Thou sea reposing like the stillest lake!

Hail ye, that blend your silence with the soul!

Around the unimaginable God

Moves, visible to faith, but unconfused

With these, the works and wonders of his hand :
These intercept his presence: they are his
But not himself: the veil before his throne :
The symbol and the shadow of th' unseen.
He sojourns not in clouds, nor is the light
His essence, mingled with the common mass
Of elements, as ancient sages dream'd,
God and his creatures one. Beyond the scope
Of sense the incommunicable mind
Dwelleth; and they that with corporeal eye,
Adoring nature's beauteous forms, discern
Intelligence in colours and in shades,
In sunlight and the glimmer of the moon;
Who deem their worship holy, when they hear
A God in empty winds and in the sounds
Of waters, they have raised an altar up
To their own idol of material things:
They in the temple of the Deity

See but the temple: in the rocks and trees,
In every blade and flower, in every bird
That wings the yielding air, they find or feel
Their godhead energy, their mindless God:
The universe its cause. Away from us
This heathen's wisdom and this poet's creed :
Away from us the dim philosophy
Whose mole-eyed opties scrutinize a God
Sever'd in parts, dissected in his powers
And attributes, and with unhallow'd zeal
Torn from himself: be thine alone the praise

And love and wonder, God! whose name is One:
God of the Sabbath!'

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