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Rh Glorious shapes have life in thee, Earth, and all earth’s company; &emsp;Living globes which ever throng Thy deep chasms and wildernesses; &emsp;And green worlds that glide along; And swift stars with flashing tresses; &emsp;And icy moons most cold and bright, &emsp;And mighty suns beyond the night, &emsp;Atoms of intensest light.

Even thy name is as a god, Heaven! for thou art the abode &emsp;Of that power which is the glass Wherein man his nature sees. &emsp;Generations as they pass Worship thee with bended knees. &emsp;Their unremaining gods and they &emsp;Like a river roll away: &emsp;Thou remainest such alway.

Thou art but the mind’s first chamber, Round which its young fancies clamber,