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Pervasive yet alone,
Immutable, yet changing still
All forms to ends unknown."
This is how he finds God. And Nature to him
is only the external manifestation of God's
will. And thus the soul's immortality is no
longer an idea with him ; it becomes a haunting
feeling and strives for lyrical expression.
" Not bounded or by space or time,
As earths and skies and seasons are,
I float in Thine immensity
Above, beyond sun, moon and star.
' Tis of the essence of my soul,
The inborn longing thus to be ;
I soar beyond the bounds of life
To find my immortality! "
And The Star Beyond the Sky sends a message
of comfort to him ;
" In doubt and sorrow's dreary night
When no fair star-beam greets the eye—
Look upward to the Source of Light!
There is a Star beyond the Sky."
But even this seems a passive feeling to one
who has glimpses of ethereal beauty and thrills
of unheard music.
^f * Sweet though the water's murmuring sound,
The sighing of the breeze ;
Sweet though the songs of birds resound
From spring-awakened trees;
Yet there's a music -sweeter still,
The pensive soul to please ;
Its notes, unheard, my bosom thrill
With finer joys than these/'