MAN needs no dread unwonted Avatar The secrets of the heavenly host to show; From waves of light, their lustrous founts we know, For every gleaming band and shadowed bar Is fraught with homelike tidings from afar; Each ripple, starting long decades ago, Pulsing to earth its blue or golden glow, Beats with the life of some immortal star. A life to each minutest atom given -- Whether it find in Man's own heart a place, Or past the suns, in unimagined space -- That Earth may know herself a part of Heaven, And see, wherever sun or spark is lit, One Law, one Life, one Substance infinite. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLNEY HYMNS: 49. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING by WILLIAM COWPER THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS HYMN WRITTEN IN DESPONDENCY by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER THE FAKENHAM GHOST by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |