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turies. It is the momentary creation of 

 forces that stream through it in endless 

 ebb and flow, that are to-day touching the 

 sky with elusive splendour, and to-morrow 

 springing in changeful loveliness from the 

 depths of earth. The continents are trans- 

 formed into the seas that encircle them ; 

 the seas rise into the skies that overarch 

 them; the skies mingle with the earth, and 

 send back from the uplifted faces of flowers 

 greetings to the stars they have deserted. 

 Mountains rise and sink in the sublime 

 rhythm to which the movement of the 

 universe is set ; that song without words 

 still audible in the sacred hour when the 

 morning stars announce the day, and 

 the birds match their tiny melodies with 

 the universal harmony. 



In the unbroken vision of the centuries 

 all things are plastic and in motion ; a di- 

 vine energy surges through all ; substantial 

 for a moment here as a rock, fragile and 

 vanishing there as a flower; but every- 

 where the same, and always sweeping on- 

 ward through its illimitable channel to its 

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