TH’ instinctive charge of young through every race
Of living things, how beautiful to see,
How wonderful to watch! — how well we trace
In all that range the ample woods, or flee
To rocky den, or build on airy tree,
And soar in open firmament above,
Or up the sedgy waters flutter free,—
Wisdom and plan, omnipotence and love!
I sing no eagle proud, no tender dove;
Poor waterfowl! not less thy care is seen,
Artful in safer nook thy brood to shove,
And court pursuit thyself, their heads to screen.
Weak man! such sight the heaven-taught lesson brings,
To seek the shelter of Eternal Wings.
(George Jehoshaphat Mountain)
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