Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-25

Nature, "" N"ith ntal Vel AT lily match
Yet aWrd We stand, for grandeur unsur
passed o'el flows
| Thy blessed mother heart. nature, Gods
meSSa2" to earth.
A various language dost thou SPEAK to
man,
Dost answer to his silent musings low
| BY voice of tnkling brook or messy stone
Meath ferns that fragrant grasst twinG
around.
Soft breeZes tell their messages or hope
| To mourning pines that reach-their
Until they seem to touch a migrtier arm
| And forge a glorious chain twixt earth
| and heaven.
| And then to thee melancholy quite
Weighed down by griefs imagined, or felt
keen.
The pines PASS on the gladstone news re-
And echoed and re-echoed 10y the brook
| To thee the message comes. sent down
from God
| BY his own messt niger. Nature. his chosen
Thou lost hear the tender music sweeter
Than ncnlng organs. richest anthems
The music Of the brook. glad. glad go
And never rest till have gained my goal
| The gentle swish and splash, the .nurniur-
The treble Of the bird notes, clear and
| low,
And sleep DER takes thy weary cyclids
Sleep rofro@hes as the breeze its requiem
| EreatheS
No longer sad. hut feeling in thy heart
! The grandeur. majesty, that thee sur
Rut 60 thou l., the ocean rolling wide
And dashing its vast surEes against the
| rocks
That stqrd about the shore. carved by the
| tini6St waves
That break ard foam their granite ledres
| Fnnril thv name within the sands awhile
| With magic skill Of glowing opal here.
| Pencil thy name. and almost ere thy shell
has traced its line
| Rlue waters roll upon the sands
Resmooth to nothing all thy work last
Ana then recede. and hid thee orce again
| Carve deerer vet thy name: let II remain,
\ seaV ced chain moist covered DER with
| Bits of wondrouS rock and sand score of
the minerals
That trey who Sc" the marvels Of the
deem explore:
\ scnNncd chain drifts ont TO sra. horne
| on tie crest
OF vordor restless wave. and on and on
| Until it's lost to sight, helpless To change
| its course.
Itself an atom on the foaminc plane.
And now the wird is loose the trembling
| moon
Hides her pale face behind the silvery
| clOud:
The waves rool high ana dash ana foam
| AGAINST the hitting Craigs that overhang
! The black ana threatening depths of the
racing
| The stars Of heavens dome no more re-
Elected
/ Into the bosom Of tile waves. rejecting
quito in ScOrn
! The bits Of LIGHT. n cloud must thrust
| It's hlackeninc form quite DER the sl1v.
/ And thundcr'S rlmhlinC roar reaches mid
! the lurid li"htrin"'s fash.
\ Fhnein@. shudderinG then asunder torn
| The distant slip is wrecked ana meets
/ A faintinc form outstrrtched on the
rocks.
But Peace he sim" The waves obey
his voice ana all IS calm.
! Fear not. The nature chain vet holds
md still her messenger in ocean waves
! Brings news of peace and majesty and
might.
And now the night lies low and shuts
| within its curtains
All that day had made more far and
! The stars, we'll called the poetry loved of
! heaven.
And lk"ne'l to forget -me-nots Of God,
! Blossom within the fields Of lLht above,
And twinlllinc in their tiny turns
/ Tell tale that natures student may learn
well.
Majesty, beauty, love are held within
their fateful leaves
! Each petal half Il story to unfold
And each different tale of natures
/ power.
And yet the same sweet tale Of natures
! love.
The soft light Of the moon, subdued AMI
! fair.
But lends fresh beauty to tie earth land
Vast and yet small when those vast fields
! above
! Shine fortl in beauty unexplored. I'M
Light. massey clouds aloft their journey
make,
! AthWalt the eXpanSe of heavens lofty
dome
| Connecting star with star and sun with
pallid moon.
And sky with distant earth in raindrops
Sacred the evening seems, the grandeur
intense.
Reverence as 'twcre the saint before.
| As 'tvorc The face Of gloried one on
which we gaze.
Quiet and calm and free to think the
thoughts
That must inspire quite the lives Of those
Who read fair natures book and under
stand.
And now the morning light is shining DER
the earth:
The mountains guarding we'll tile river
| wide
Roll e ntly Hill ana valley, and b"speak
| The ma iesty supreme of natures hand.
| The sky suffuseI with crimson and with
| gold
Its eastern gates have opened. just jar,
To usher in til sun AMI all his train.
Each beam oc light silent word from
4
! Slowly the doors swing open to emit
! Yet other rays more warm and bright
/ Until the mountain ridges loWly seem
! Crowned with the halo Of the rising sun.
! And 10, down the valleys glowing. there,
| Bright flowers shed their fairest gems of
truth.
As buds unfold, as blossoms ope their
| CunS
To catch he pearls o dew that fan
| within.
And even each glade of grass IN sunny
| slop"
! Forming soft carpets made by hidden
! hands.
Nav teach deep truths painted So clear
| Within the book of nature ont to tt e..
| And go ad0rn TIE valley where the s iad-
| OwS lie
And on the mountain peak sun kissed and
snow bPSpread
These timd carriers Of good will and
! cheer bloom ever.
Their mission dorc, their fragrance not in
vain.
For nature secs her children. blesses
| them.
II mountain il too high for man to scale,
| VI valley il too far for man to reach.
| Aud DOU fine SIM stand high and crowns