Not in shifting undulations
Has the word of God been spoken,
But in constant revelations,
Never silent, never broken.
Not in sudden brightness glaring,
Soon to be obscured in night,
But in glories ever streaming
From an ever-loving light.
Not alone in books we read His
Lessons, always broadly given;
Man will find them where his need is,
Everywhere in earth and heaven.
Every sunbeam is a letter
In the ever-glowing word;
Yet more eloquent and better
In the heart’s responses heard.
Heard when the astounding thunders
Burst upon our listening ears,
Yet more plainly in the wonders
Of the music of the spheres.
Sound and silence ever giving
Equal witness—weal and woe—
Sleeping—waking—dying—living,
All around, above, below.
(John Bowring)
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