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 As yonder City vivifies Her setting rare of plain and skies And glorious past both, the whole scene lies— So, world-wide, Man and Nature win fresh worth Through one another, and new power confer, The while, in union, both create and share, Past either mighty, and past either fair, The life of the whole Earth! Ay, Nature’s cool, serene Yellow and blue and green, Cunningly wove and wed With Man’s hot orange and red, Cloud-purple, indigo— And lo! the ladder of the Earth’s rainbow: Her treble and his bass in true accord, The Earth-Song joins the music of the spheres: Her consciousness and his conjoined to one, The Cosmic Poem hears The syllables twain of Earth’s required Word: Her life and his life in one living whole, And Earth through Spirit as through space shines on A Star, a Soul!

Yet O! what join’d them? Could the mere Stardust Compose itself to unity so just, And such begetting Harmony beget? Then in its deadness must Some deeper being be, that one can trust!