• To him who in the love of Nature holds
    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
    A various language; for his gayer hours
    She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
    And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
    Into his darker musings, with a mild
    And healing sympathy, that steals away
    Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
    Of...

  •   TO him who, in the love of Nature, holds
    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
    A various language: for his gayer hours
    She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
    And eloquence of beauty; and she glides
    Into his darker musings with a mild
    And healing sympathy, that steals away
    Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
    ...