NATURE'S PRAISE.
Beside the silver stream we pitched our tent, As sank the evening sun into the west, Tinting with softened light the lofty heavens, Proclaiming 'twas the hour of rest. As tint dissolved in tint across th,e sky, The hills seemed purple, as with heather 1 clad; A softness gently stole on all around, The shadows deepened in the glade. Anon the moon crept slowly up the " lift," Flooding the darkness with its cold, still light; Tho stars came out, each in its appointed sphere, And all the world seenied strangely bright. » I moved away a pace to be alone, To look " from Nature up to Nature's God," Carried in thought from earth, our home below, , To heaven, the place of His abode. All Nature gladly joined with me in praise ? The murmuring stream, the trees, the momw tains high With one accord in bweetest harmony breathed Their orisons unto the sky. How different from the noisy city 'tis, With all its misery, care, and endless moil, Its bustling, jostling, motley, moving crowd, Riches, poverty, crime, and toil. Yet only in the life the difference is:' No difference 'twixfc the city and the glen. All Nature praises God where'er it be — The only vileness is in men. — M. Balclutha, August 27.
NATURE'S PRAISE.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 56
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