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III. Alike in every human heart.
 * Thou, aye, erectest there

Thy throne of power unappealable: Thou art the judge beneath whose nod Man's brief and frail authority
 * Is powerless as the wind
 * That passeth idly by.

Thine the tribunal which surpasseth
 * The shew of human justice,
 * As God surpasses man.


 * Spirit of Nature! thou

Life of interminable multitudes;
 * Soul of those mighty spheres

Whose changeless paths thro' Heaven's deep silence lie;
 * Soul of that smallest being,
 * The dwelling of whose life
 * Is one faint April sun-gleam;—
 * Man, like these passive things,

Thy will unconsciously fulfilleth:
 * Like theirs, his age of endless peace,
 * Which time is fast maturing,
 * Will swiftly, surely come;

And the unbounded frame, which thou pervadest,
 * Will be without a flaw
 * Marring its perfect symmetry.