MAN needs no dread unwonted Avatar
The secrets of the heavenly host to show;
From waves of light, their lustrous founts we know,
For every gleaming band and shadowed bar
Is fraught with homelike tidings from afar;
Each ripple, starting long decades ago,
Pulsing to earth its blue or golden glow,
Beats with the life of some immortal star.
A life to each minutest atom given–
Whether it find in Man’s own heart a place,
Or past the suns, in unimagined space–
That Earth may know herself a part of Heaven,
And see, wherever sun or spark is lit,
One Law, one Life, one Substance infinite.
(Constance Naden)
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