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There is poetry, too, in the harmonies of nature. It glitters in the 
wave, the rainbow, the lightning, and the star. 
It is the music of the universe. 
The earth and the heavens are quickened by its thrill; and the heav- 
ings of the great deep, in tempest and in calm, are but its secret and mys¬ 
terious intonations. 
The world is full of poetry,—the air 
Is living- with its spirit; and the waves 
Dance to the music of its melodies. 
And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled 
And mantled with its beauty; and the walls, 
That close the universe with crystaline, 
Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim 
The unseen glories of immensity, 
In harmonious too perfect and too high, 
For aught but beings of celestial mould, 
And speak to man in one eternal hymn, 
Unfading beauty, and unyielding power. 
—James G. Percival. 
Elm. 
A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much employed as a 
shade tree, particularly in America. 
“Under the cooling shadow of a stately elm, 
Close sate I by a goodly river’s side, 
Where gliding streams the rock did overwhelm; 
A lonely place, with pleasure dignified.” 
—Anne Badstreet . 
