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SONNETS.
Eternal and Omnipotent Unseen!
Who bad'st the world, with all its lives complete,
Start from the void and thrill beneath thy feet,
Thee I adore with reverence serene;
Here, in the fields, thine own cathedral meet,
Built by thyself, star-roof'd, and hung with green,
Wherein all breathing things in concord sweet,
Organ'd by winds, perpetual hymns repeat.
Who bad'st the world, with all its lives complete,
Start from the void and thrill beneath thy feet,
Thee I adore with reverence serene;
Here, in the fields, thine own cathedral meet,
Built by thyself, star-roof'd, and hung with green,
Wherein all breathing things in concord sweet,
Organ'd by winds, perpetual hymns repeat.
Here hast thou spread that Book to every eye,
Whose tongue and truth all, all may read and prove,
On whose three blessed leaves—Earth, Ocean, Sky,
Thine own right hand hath stamp'd might, justice, love;
Grand Trinity, which binds in due degree,
God, man, and brute, in social unity.
Whose tongue and truth all, all may read and prove,
On whose three blessed leaves—Earth, Ocean, Sky,
Thine own right hand hath stamp'd might, justice, love;
Grand Trinity, which binds in due degree,
God, man, and brute, in social unity.
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