Rushes tall, and moss, and grass grew | Earth, one time, put on a frolic mood, round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way; Earth was young and keeping holiday. Monster fishes swam the silent main, Stately forests waved their giant branches, Mountains hurled their snowy avalanches, Mammoth creatures stalked across the plain; Nature revelled in grand mysteries; Only grew and waved its wild sweet No one came to note it day by day. Heaved the rocks and changed the mighty motion Of the deep, strong currents of the ocean; Moved the plain and shook the haughty wood, Crushed the little fern in soft moist clay, O, the agony, O, life's bitter cost, Useless! Lost! There came a thoughtful man Searching Nature's secrets, far and deep; From a fissure in a rocky steep He withdrew a stone, o'er which there ran Fairy pencillings, a quaint design, Veinings, leafage, fibres clear and fine, And the fern's life lay in every line! So, I think, God hides some souls away, Sweetly to surprise us the last day. Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone. 137 168 221 Heap on more wood! — the wind is chill.. 107 He's gane, he 's gane! he 's frae us torn .. He that of such a height hath built his mind 14 High hopes that burned like stars sublime 212 202 I love to wander through the woodlands 233 163 .... 86 106 165 In Athens, when all learning centred there 326 341 59 223 294 318 76 I saw a man, by some accounted wise....... 321 156 I say to thee, do thou repeat 241 234 I sought thee round about, O thou my God 26 83 31 32 It chanceth once to every soul.. 306 |