The Bubbling brook doth leap when I come by,
Because my feet find measure with its call;
The birds know when the friend they love is nigh,
For I am known to them, both great and small.
The flower that on the lonely hillside grows
Expects me there when spring its bloom has given;
And many a tree and bush my wanderings knows,
And e’en the...
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Lain in Nature — so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence
For the missing Seed —
Maddest Heart that God created
Cannot move a sod
Pasted by the simple summer
On the Longed for Dead -
Nature affects to be sedate
Upon occasion, grand
But let our observation shut
Her practices extend
To Necromancy and the Trades
Remote to understand
Behold our spacious Citizen
Unto a Juggler turned — -
Nature and God — I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.
Yet Neither told — that I could learn —
My Secret as secure
As Herschel's private interest
Or Mercury's affair — -
Nature assigns the Sun —
That — is Astronomy —
Nature cannot enact a Friend —
That — is Astrology. -
Nature can do no more
She has fulfilled her Dyes
Whatever Flower fail to come
Of other Summer days
Her crescent reimburse
If other Summers be
Nature's imposing negative
Nulls opportunity — -
Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling —
Sometimes — scalps a Tree —
Her Green People recollect it
When they do not die —
Fainter Leaves — to Further Seasons —
Dumbly testify —
We — who have the Souls —
Die oftener — Not so vitally — -
WHAT is good-nature? Gen'rous Richmond, tell;
He can declare it best, who best can feel.
Is it a foolish weakness in the breast,
As some who know, or have it not, contest?
Or is it rather not the mighty whole,
Full composition of a virtuous soul?
Is it not virtue's self? A flower so fine,...Of Nature I shall have enough
When I have entered these
Entitled to a Bumble bee's
Familiarities.These are the Signs to Nature's Inns —
Her invitation broad
To Whosoever famishing
To taste her mystic Bread —
These are the rites of Nature's House —
The Hospitality
That opens with an equal width
To Beggar and to Bee
For Sureties of her staunch Estate
Her...