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 And, changing with the gazer, borrow light From their rapt devotee's adoring sight. And Ormuzd, Ashtaroth, Osiris, Baal— Love spending gods and gods of blood and wail— Look down upon their suppliant from the skies With his own magnified, responsive eyes. For Man, from want and pressing hunger freed, Begins to feel another kind of need, And in his shaping brain and through his eyes Nature, awakening, sees her blue-arched skies; The Sun, his life-begetter, isled in space; The Moon, the Measurer of his span of days; The immemorial stars who pierce his night With inklings of things vast and infinite. All shows of heaven and earth that move and pass Take form within his brain as in a glass. The tidal thunder of the sea now roars And breaks symphonious on a hundred shores; The fitful flutings of the vagrant breeze Strike gusts of sound from virgin forest trees;