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Stanzas (1827) · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Stanzas, 1827. How often we forget all time when lone, admiring,
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  Speaker 1: nature's universal throne, her woods, her wilds, her mountains, the
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  Speaker 1: intense reply of hers to our intelligence. I, in youth,
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  Speaker 1: have I known one, with whom the earth in secret
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  Speaker 1: communing held, as he with it, in daylight. and in
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  Speaker 1: beauty from his birth, whose fervid flickering torch of life
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  Speaker 1: was lit from the sun and stars, whence he had
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  Speaker 1: drawn forth a passionate light, such for his spirit was fit,
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  Speaker 1: and yet that spirit knew not, in the hour of
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  Speaker 1: its own fervor, what had o'er it power. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 1: may be that my mind is wrought to a fever
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  Speaker 1: by the moonbeam that hangs o'er, but I will half believe,
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  Speaker 1: that wild light fraught with more of sovereignty than ancient
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  Speaker 1: lore hath ever told. Or is it of a thought
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  Speaker 1: the unembodied essence and no more, that with a quickening
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  Speaker 1: spell doth o'er us pass, as dew of the night-time
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  Speaker 1: o'er the summer grass? Doth o'er us pass, when, as
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  Speaker 1: the expanding eye to the loved object, so the tear
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  Speaker 1: to the lid will start, which lately slept in apathy?
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  Speaker 1: And yet it need not be that object hid from
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  Speaker 1: us in life, but common, which doth lie each hour
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  Speaker 1: before us, but then only bid with a strange sound,
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  Speaker 1: as of a harp-string broken, to awake us. Tis a
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  Speaker 1: symbol and a token of what in other worlds shall be,
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  Speaker 1: and given in beauty by our God, to those alone
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  Speaker 1: who otherwise would fall from life and heaven, drawn by
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  Speaker 1: their heart's passion and that tone. That high tone of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit which hath striven, though not with faith, with godliness,
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  Speaker 1: whose throne with desperate energy it hath beaten down, wearing
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  Speaker 1: its own deep feeling as a crown.