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AY- STARS! that ope your frownless eyes to twinkle 

 Fiom rainbow galaxies of earth's creation, 

 \nd dew-drops on her lonely altars sprinkle 



As a libation. 



Y* Vt matin worshipers! who, bending lowly 

 ] J Belbre the uprisen sun, God's Hdless eye, 



(jt^l Thiow from your chalices a sweet and holy 

 % I Incense on high. 



Y Ye bright mosaics! that with storied beauty 

 * L The floor of Nature's temple tessellate, 



\\ \\ hat numerous emblems of instructive duty 

 j, Your forms create! 



'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth. 



And tolls its perfume on the passing air, 

 Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth 

 A call to prayer. 



Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column 



Attest the feebleness of mortal hand. 

 But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, 

 Which God hath planned; 



To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, 



Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply; 

 Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder. 

 Its dome the sk}-. 



There, as in solitude and shade I wander 



Through the green aisles, or stretched upon the sod, 

 Awed b}- the silence, reverently ponder 

 The ways of God, 



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