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Signs in the Natural World
The earth doth with the heavens sympathise!When, by the civil war, our land was rent,
Scorched was the ground, and from the cloudless skies
The sun blazed fierce, no rain from heaven was sent:
Now, filled with vapor is the summer sky,
And drenched with frequent rains the needy ground;
On their dread errands oft the lightnings fly,
And echoes through heaven's vault the thunder's sound.
But dull the eye of sense, and dull its ear
Unto these signs; that wake the listening soul;
That doth in Nature more than Nature hear,
That sees the Hand that doth her powers controul;
And feels that earth and man, and sea and sky
Are bound in one by hidden sympathy.
Poem No. 491; c. 5 October 1872
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