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Wakes there some spirit here? A swift wind, fraught with change, comes rushing by, And leaves and waters, in its wild career, Shed forth sweet voices—each a mystery! Surely some awful influence must pervade These depths of trembling shade!

Yes, lightly, softly move! There is a power, a presence in the woods; A viewless being, that, with life and love, Informs the reverential solitudes: The rich air knows it, and the mossy sod— Thou, thou art here, my God!

And if with awe we tread The minster floor, beneath the storied pane, And 'midst the mouldering banners of the dead, Shall the green voiceful wild seem less thy fane, Where thou alone hast built?—where arch and roof Are of thy living woof?