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Faith finds, when sorrow's night is done,
A fairer world from chaos won ;
Each atom rife with glowing life,
Aspiring towards a brighter sun.
Such love and faith were his, whose soul
In each fair fragment saw the whole ;
Eternal grace in Beauty's face,
Love where eternal aeons roll. "*
One of his earliest lyrical poems written before
his powers had reached maturity, is entitled
A Lesson and in it he is not afraid to appear didac-
tic. He shows us :
" Many a nameless flower
On rocky, sterile soil that grows,
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Alike in sunshine and in gloom,
In noontide heat, in midnight cold
The Power that made it bids it bloom
And to the heavens its heart unfold
And to the heart of man convey
With hopeful smile this precious lore,
That He who breathes life into clay
Will guard that life for evermore."
This was written in the early years of this cen-
tury, and showed him the way from Nature to
God; and this was his religion even before he
wrote in 1936/37 :
" Religion is no idle rite—
'Tis worship in the heart
i Where faith reveals the hidden light
Whose subtle rays impart
Their wondrous grace to earth and sky,
: And life to lifeless sod."
*The rhyme arrangement is that of the Persian quatrain.