6. LOOKING on Nature I have often felt All thinking things, all objects of all thought Wordsworth. 7. ALL are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all. Pope. 8. DIFFUSED throughout infinitude of space Who art Thyself thine own vast dwelling place, Soul of our soul, whom yet no sense of ours Discerns, eluding our most active powers ; Encircling shades attend Thine awful throne That veil Thy face, and keep Thee stil unknown; Unknown, though dwelling in our inmost part Lord of the thoughts and sovereign of the heart. Mad. Guyon, tr. Cowper. WHEN up to nightly skies we gaze, But, could we rise to moon or sun, This earth, with all its dust and tears, The rock, the wave, the little flower,— We view those halls of painted air, Is he whose thoughts with thine accord. Sterling. MUSIC, divine, religious, o'er us roll! Oh wake it not! but sweetly, gently cease; And leave our heart with God and Man at peace! H. K. Moore. |